Tape drive configuration
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsCurtis C. Ballard, Carl R. Hoerger
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Abstract
A method comprising: determining, by a tape library, respective tape densities supported by each of a plurality of tape drives and respective tape densities indicated for each of a plurality of tape cartridges; receiving, by the tape library, a command to load a given one of the tape cartridges into a given one of the tape drives; determining, by the tape library, that the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge matches a tape density supported by the given tape drive; and in response to the determination that the tape densities match, configuring, by the tape library, the given tape drive to initialize the given tape cartridge to the tape density indicated for the given tape cartridge.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- determining, by a tape library, multiple tape densities supported by a given tape drive of a plurality of tape drives and respective tape densities indicated for each of a plurality of tape cartridges;
- receiving, by the tape library, a command to load a given tape cartridge of the plurality of tape cartridges into the given tape drive of the plurality of tape drives;
- determining, by the tape library, that an indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge matches one of the multiple tape densities supported by the given tape drive;
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- in response to the determination that the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge and one of the multiple tape densities supported by the given tape drive match, configuring, by the tape library, the given tape drive to initialize the given tape cartridge to the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge.
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A tape library comprising:
- a processor;
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- a non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions executable on the processor to:
- determine respective tape densities supported by each of a plurality of tape drives and respective tape densities indicated for each of a plurality of tape cartridges;
- receive a command to load a given tape cartridge of the plurality of tape cartridges into a given tape drive of the plurality of tape drives;
- determine that an indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge matches a tape density supported by the given tape drive;
- and
- in response to the determination that the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge and the tape density supported by the given tape drive match, configure the given tape drive to initialize the given tape cartridge to the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a tape library to:
- determine respective tape densities supported by each of a plurality of tape drives and respective tape densities indicated for each of a plurality of tape cartridges;
- receive a command to load a given tape cartridge of the plurality of tape cartridges into a given tape drive of the plurality of tape drives;
- determine that an indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge matches a tape density supported by the given tape drive;
- and
- in response to the determination that the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge and the tape density supported by the given tape drive match, configure the given tape drive to initialize the given tape cartridge to the indicated tape density for the given tape cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.