Tape drive apparatus

Details Tape drive apparatus Tape drive apparatus

2005-10-06

2009-12-01

Mercedes, Dismery E (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the record

C360S048000, C360S069000, C360S077120, C360S078030, C360S078080

Reexamination Certificate

active

07626778

ABSTRACT:
One embodiment of a tape drive apparatus has a non-volatile memory for storing an identifier. Data that is written by the tape drive apparatus to a loaded tape media is tagged using the identifier. This facilitates to identify the tape drive apparatus that has written the data onto the tape media such as for the purpose of failure analysis. Other devices and methods are included.

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