Patent ID: 7287714

Claim:
A tape cartridge for use as a backup medium for computer data, comprising a tape supply-side hub; a tape take-up-side hub; and a magnetic tape wound onto the tape supply-side hub that are disposed inside a mainframe case, wherein one end of a leader tape fixed onto the tape take-up-side hub and one end of the magnetic tape are connected via a splicing tape, the other end of the magnetic tape is wound onto the tape supply-side hub to establish direct connection between the magnetic tape and the tape supply-side hub, a wound tape layer wound onto the tape supply-side hub includes a non-recording layer on a winding leader side composed of a specified amount of a wound tape layer and a recording layer connecting to the non-recording layer, and a feeding limit position of the magnetic tape in the tape supply-side hub is set to be in a vicinity of a boundary between the non-recording layer and the recording layer.