SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND STORING DIGITAL INFORMATION ON MAGNETIC TAPE

摘要

A method of storing information on tape, with redundancy, comprises arranging the data into a plurality of data sectors each having a plurality of data words, and generating an error-correcting sector comprising error-correcting words each derived from one of the data words from each data sector using a Reed-Solomon code. The data and error-correcting sectors are then stored sequentially on tape.