Packs of rod-shaped smokers’ products comprise containers of a material which permits monitoring of their contents by a suitable detector serving to generate signals which indicate the presence of characteristic indicia on one or more packed smokers’ products. This counter rotation acts to counteract the gyroscopic reaction moments induced by the application of off-axis torques to the tarmac wheel and axel assembly. The other free end of the body is configured to receive the shaped free end of the gate, and includes a shape that corresponds substantially with the shape of the shaped end of the gate. If the parking brake was previously in an applied actuation state, the application force is reduced from a second value to the first value. By the modification the presence of the protease, plasma hyaluronan binding protease, is decreased which minimizes the cleavage of Factor IX and enhances the yield of Factor IX in the purification process. Then, a faulty-block processing is performed only for the addresses, for which it is determined that retry of writing is required, thereby preventing an increase of faulty-blocks.