Apparatus for Accessing A Computer-Readable Medium Device
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsDirk Erickson, Hong-Jing Lo
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Abstract
A computer system and method includes a computing device and an optical drive. The optical drive is accessed by the computing device to provide information. The information describes the optical drive's write capability, whether the drive executes a pre-determined write strategy, and a digital data extraction capability of the optical drive according to a pre-determined format. The system utilizes a program configured by the computing device in response to the information provided, whereby the computing device operates supporting features of the optical drive, and supports a variety of optical drives without relying on a list of supported optical drives in a static drive table.
Claims25
A method for interfacing a computing system with an optical medium drive device, the method comprising:
- receiving a description about a feature of the optical medium drive device from the optical medium drive device, the feature being write capability or digital data extraction capability of the optical medium drive device and the feature not being an identification of the optical medium drive device;
- reporting the write capability or digital data extraction capability of the optical medium drive device;
- configuring instructions in response to the description for managing access by the computing system to the optical medium drive device, without relying on the identification of the optical medium drive device;
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- accessing the optical medium drive device in response to the instructions.
A computer system comprising:
- a computing device;
- an optical drive accessed by the computing device to provide information, the information describing the optical drive's write capability, whether the drive executes a pre-determined write strategy, and a digital data extraction capability of the optical drive according to a pre-determined format;
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- a program being configured by the computing device in response to the information provided, whereby the computing device operates supporting features of the optical drive, and supporting a variety of optical drives, and without relying on a list of supported optical drives in a static drive table.
An optical data drive system comprising:
- an optical data storage drive;
- a computing device to receive a description of command set behavior of the optical data storage drive from the optical data storage drive;
- the computing device to configure a program in response to the description of command set behavior for managing access by the computing system to the optical data storage drive, without relying on an identification of the optical data storage drive;
- the computing device to access the optical data storage drive in response to instructions of the configured program, wherein the command set behavior includes write capability and/or digital data extraction capability of the optical data storage drive;
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- a sub-system to report the write capability and/or digital data extraction capability of the optical data storage drive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.