Erasing of data from tapes
AssigneeInsurgo Holdings Limited
InventorsRoy Spiller, Gavin Griffiths
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system for the erasure of data from a tape cartridge having a data tape and a CM chip, the device comprising: a controller in communication with: a magnetic head; a tape driver; and an antenna, wherein, when a data cartridge is detected by the controller, the controller is operable to signal to the antenna to determine the CM chip identification data; and, the controller is operable in dependence on the received CM chip identification data to instruct the antenna to overwrite at least a portion of the non-protected memory of the CM chip.
Claims11
A system for the erasure of data from a tape cartridge comprising a data tape and identification data, the system comprising:
- a controller in communication with:
- a magnetic head;
- a tape driver;
- and an antenna;
- wherein the tape cartridge comprises a data tape and a CM chip and wherein the identification data is held on the CM chip;
- and
- wherein, when the data cartridge is detected by the controller, the controller is operable to signal to the antenna to determine the CM chip identification data;
- and wherein the controller is operable in dependence on the CM chip identification data to instruct the antenna to overwrite at least a portion of the non-protected memory of the CM chip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.