Reading or storing boot data in auxiliary memory of a tape cartridge
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRhys Wyn Evans, Alastair Michael Slater
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Abstract
A tape drive for exchanging data with a tape cartridge, which has tape media and auxiliary memory that is not tape media, is operable, in response to a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not a tape drive, to read boot data stored on the auxiliary memory and to output the boot data for booting the computer apparatus.
Claims9
A tape drive for exchanging data with a tape cartridge, the tape cartridge having tape media and auxiliary memory that is not tape media, the tape drive being operable, in response to a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not a tape drive, to read boot data stored on the auxiliary memory and to output said boot data for booting said computer apparatus,
- wherein the tape drive is adapted to persistently identify itself as a CD-ROM or DVD device in addition to persistently identifying itself as the tape drive, and
- wherein the tape drive is adapted to persistently identify itself on a first port as said kind of initial program load device in addition to persistently identifying itself on another port as the tape drive.
A method of a tape drive, comprising:
- receiving a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not the tape drive;
- in response to the boot request, reading boot data stored on auxiliary memory of a tape cartridge that also includes tape media, wherein the auxiliary memory is a type of media different from the tape media;
- outputting the boot data read from the auxiliary memory to the computer apparatus to boot the computer apparatus;
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- the tape drive persistently identifying itself as a CD-ROM or DVD device in addition to persistently identifying itself as the tape drive, wherein the tape drive persistently identifies itself on a first port as the kind of initial program load device in addition to persistently identifying itself on another port as the tape drive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.