Longitudinal position information on a magnetic tape media

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PATENT NO 8896954
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13645931

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A magnetic tape media for storing data includes at least one servo band extending along the magnetic tape media and having servo information encoded by an M-ary alphabet A comprising M>2 different symbols and is arranged in a set of words. Each word of the set of words contains synchronization information, wherein each symbol used for representing the synchronization information is from a set B of m symbols, which set B is a proper subset of the symbols in the alphabet A such that 1≦m

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Cherubini, Giovanni Rueschlikon, CH 165 2023
Cideciyan, Roy D Rueschlikon, CH 132 2017

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