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Data recording apparatus and method

US5969897A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 27, 1998
Grant dateOct 19, 1999
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/90
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data recording apparatus is adapted to write and read digital data on and from a recording medium such as a tape, a disk or the like driven by a driving mechanism, so as to be applicable to recording of computer data, collection of experiment data in a variety of experiment instruments, recording of a variety of observation data, and so on. For writing and reading data while controlling the driving mechanism to run and stop the recording medium, a buffer memory is provided in order to coordinate a data recording or reproduction effected on the recording medium with a data transfer speed of a data transferred from and to an external apparatus such as a host computer. The data recording and reproducing amount and the operation of the driving mechanism are controlled based on the data transfer speed of data transferred to the buffer memory.

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