A cartridge according to the present technology includes: a cartridge case; and a memory. The cartridge case houses a magnetic tape. The memory is provided in the cartridge case, the memory storing information during data recording by the magnetic tape, the information being for adjusting a width of the magnetic tape during data reproduction by the magnetic tape.

[Solving Means] A cartridge according to the present technology includes: a cartridge case; and a memory.

The cartridge case houses a magnetic tape. The memory is provided in the cartridge case, the memory storing information before data recording by the magnetic tape, the information being for adjusting, during data recording or during data reproduction by the magnetic tape, a width of the magnetic tape.

The present disclosure generally relates to a tape embedded drive having a head-gimbal assembly (HGA) and a contact plate. By using a support structure or contact plate beneath the tape, read and write heads can be designed to be narrower than the tape. The support structure or contact plate can stretch or relax the tape so that the spacing between servo tracks on the tape corresponds to the servo to servo spacing on the head. HGAs, which are narrower than the tape, can fly over the tape and read data from and write data to the tape. The HGA can have a single head or multiple heads. Additionally, multiple independent head assemblies can also be used for reading from and writing to the same tape.

A magnetic tape device, in which a magnetic tape is caused to run between a winding reel and a cartridge reel in a state where a tension is applied in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape and a maximum value of the tension is 0.50 N or more, and the magnetic tape after running in a state where the tension is applied is caused to be wound around the cartridge reel by applying a tension of 0.40 N or less in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape, and an adhesive strength of the magnetic layer of the magnetic tape is 1.0 N or more, and an adhesive strength of the back coating layer is 1.0 N or more.

A magnetic tape cartridge includes a case in which a magnetic tape is housed, and an NVM of a cartridge memory provided in the case. The NVM stores cartridge information including an identification ID regarding an allowable range of temperature/humidity in using the magnetic tape, an upper limit of a preservation period of the magnetic tape, and an upper limit of a use frequency of the magnetic tape.

The magnetic tape container includes a core around which a magnetic tape is wound. The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A maximum value of a deviation of a center position of an average minimum region reference circle of a trajectory of one rotation drawn by the magnetic tape, in a case where the wound magnetic tape is drawn out from the core core is 100 μm or less for three points of the magnetic tape in a width direction.

The magnetic tape satisfies TDSage+TDSenv−TC≤0.30 μm. TDSage is a maximum absolute value of a difference between the servo band interval obtained before a predetermined storage and the servo band interval obtained after the storage, TDSenv is a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the servo band interval respectively obtained under five predetermined environments by ½, TC is a value calculated by multiplying TDStens by 0.5 N, and TDStens is a ratio of a change in the servo band interval to a change in tension calculated from the servo band interval respectively obtained under five predetermined environments by applying a plurality of different tensions in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape.

The magnetic tape satisfies TDSage+TDSenv−TC≤0.30 μm. TDSage is a maximum absolute value of a difference between the servo band interval obtained before a predetermined storage and the servo band interval obtained after the storage, TDSenv is a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the servo band interval respectively obtained under five predetermined environments by ½, TC is a value calculated by multiplying TDStens by 0.5 N, and TDStens is a ratio of a change in the servo band interval to a change in tension calculated from the servo band interval respectively obtained under five predetermined environments by applying a plurality of different tensions in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape.

A magnetic tape device, in which a magnetic tape is caused to run between a winding reel and a cartridge reel in a state where a tension is applied in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape and a maximum value of the tension is 0.50 N or more, the magnetic tape after running in a state where the tension is applied is caused to be wound around the cartridge reel by applying a tension of 0.40 N or less in the longitudinal direction, and a number distribution A of equivalent circle diameters of a plurality of bright areas and a number distribution B of equivalent circle diameters of a plurality of dark areas in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer of the magnetic tape with a scanning electron microscope satisfy predetermined number distributions, respectively.

A magnetic tape device, a magnetic tape, and a magnetic tape cartridge, in which the magnetic tape is caused to run between a winding reel and a cartridge reel in a state where a tension is applied in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape and a maximum value of the tension is 0.50 N or more, the magnetic tape after running in a state where the tension is applied is wound around the cartridge reel by applying a tension of 0.40 N or less in the longitudinal direction, and a center line average roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of a back coating layer of the magnetic tape with an atomic force microscope is in a range of 5 to 13 nm.