Recording/reproduction apparatus having a medium, information processing system including the same apparatus, and method of initializing a medium in the apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHiroyuki Oka
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Abstract
A recording/reproduction apparatus includes a magnetic disk. An information apparatus sets an instruction to initialize the magnetic disk and transmits the set instruction to the recording/reproduction apparatus through a network. The recording/reproduction apparatus receives the instruction from the information apparatus through the network and initializes the recording medium in accordance with the instruction. Thus, a user can finely initializes the recording medium of the recording/reproduction apparatus from remote locations.
Claims13
A method of initializing a medium in a first apparatus, the method comprising:
- setting an instruction to initialize the medium by a second apparatus;
- transmitting the instruction set by the second apparatus to the first apparatus through a network;
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- receiving the instruction, which are transmitted from the second apparatus through the network, by the first apparatus and initializing the medium in accordance with the instruction.
An information processing system comprising:
- a first apparatus having a medium;
- and
- a second apparatus which sets an instruction to initialize the medium and transmits the set the instruction to the first apparatus through a network, the first apparatus receiving the instruction from the second apparatus through the network and initializing the medium in accordance with the instruction.
A recording/reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a medium;
- a communication unit which receives an instruction to initialize the medium through a network;
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- a processing unit which initializes the medium in accordance with the instruction received by the communication unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.