| US 7,453,361 B2 | ||
| Refurbishing and resale techniques for data storage tape | ||
| Brian D. Findlay, Woodbury, Minn. (US); and Denis J. Langlois, River Falls, Wis. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Imation Corp., Oakdale, Minn. (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 25, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/977,468. | ||
| Application 11/977468 is a division of application No. 11/255666, filed on Oct. 20, 2005, granted, now 7,304,576. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0055776 A1, Mar. 06, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. G08B 13/14 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 340—572.1 [340/572.4; 702/187; 360/31] | 6 Claims |
| 1. A method of refurbishing a used data tape cartridge, the method comprising:
obtaining the used data tape cartridge, wherein said used data tape cartridge comprises a data tape medium including a servo
pattern that was pre-recorded during fabrication of the data tape medium and data that was recorded on the data tape medium
by one or more users during use of the data tape medium;
degaussing the data tape medium; and
recording a new servo pattern on the degaussed data tape medium.
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