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AssigneeStorage Technology Corporation
InventorsWilliam C. Dodt, Jerry L. Donze, Terry R. Gottehrer, Ronald W. Korngiebel, Donald F. McCarthy
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Control software and hardware in the tape drive control unit creates and manages a header segment at the beginning of the magnetic tape. This header segment includes an administrative information section that contains data relating to the magnetic tape itself. The administrative information includes read/write status information such as the write protect status of the magnetic tape that enables the tape drive control unit to manage the data records written onto the magnetic tape without reference to any other source of administrative data. In addition, each data record written on the magnetic tape includes a header which denotes the read/write status of the data record.
In a drive element that reads and writes data records received from a host computer on rewritable serial media, apparatus operationally independent of said host computer for maintaining administrative data on said rewritable serial media, comprising:
The apparatus of claim I further comprising:
In a drive element that reads and writes data records, received from a host computer on rewritable serial media, a method for providing, operationally independent of said host computer administrative data on said rewritable serial media, comprising the steps of:
The method of claim 21 further comprising the step of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.