Tape cassette and tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus

摘要

A tape streamer device in which the current arraying state of partitions formed on a tape-shaped recording medium can be known even on addition or deletion of partitions. The tape streamer device (1) includes a recording and/or reproducing unit (130) and a write/readout controller (163). The recording and/or reproducing unit (130) has a partition rewriting portion for rewriting the partitions and a data recording and/or reproducing portion for the partitions. The recording and/or reproducing unit (130) has the function of controlling the recording and/or reproducing portion based on the arraying information stored in a MIC 11 for recording and/or reproducing data. The write/readout controller (163) has the partition arraying information writing function of storing the arraying information indicating the arraying of the partitions in the magnetic tape (12) in the MIC 11. <IMAGE>