Recording medium and tape drive apparatus that calculates available partition recording area using maximum frame number information stored in a memory-in-cassette

摘要: A tape cassette and a streamer drive for driving the are provided. MAFN data VMAFN defined so as to indicate maximum frame number of all frames formed in partition valid area partition, respectively. The stored MIC disposed cassette. size an available recording remaining is calculated from data. Thus, powerful technique achieved managing used storage application.