Writing data to a storage medium in data sets commencing at a same position along the storage medium

摘要

Data are written to plural parallel data tracks of a data storage medium by arranging a data stream into plural streams of data sets. Each stream of data sets is allocated to a corresponding respective group of parallel data tracks. A plurality of the data sets are written to the plural data track groups, such that in each data stream, each data set commences at substantially the same position along a length of the linear data storage medium, as a data set of another of the streams.