Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Colette Toone Howe

Curtis C Ballard

William Wesley Torrey

Stanley Smith Feather, Jr

Rick A Kato

Bill Torrey

Myron Eugen Yoknis

A cartridge storage system has at least one peripheral device that controls access to a system component of the storage system and memory storing configuration data indicative of a configuration of the peripheral device. The system further has logic that automatically configures a replacement peripheral device of the at least one peripheral device based upon the stored configuration data.

System and method for storing configuration data of a storage automation device

A cartridge storage system comprising a movable component, a removable nonvolatile memory component (RNMC), and logic configured to store operational data indicative of an operational history of the movable component in the RNMC.

System and method for storing operational data of a storage automation device to a removable nonvolatile memory component

A method of switching between two or more images of firmware on a host device includes storing two or more images of firmware in non-volatile memory of the host device and loading one of the images upon startup in response to a user-controllable indicator. A host device that runs firmware during operation may include a non-volatile memory unit that stores a boot code module and is configured to hold two or more firmware images, a processor for executing the boot code module and firmware, said processor being in communication with the non-volatile memory and a switch in communication with the processor, where the boot code module is configured to cause the processor to execute a particular firmware image in response to a position of the switch. Alternatively, a host device that runs firmware during operation may include a non-volatile memory unit that stores a boot code module and at least one firmware image, a processor for executing firmware that communicates with the non-volatile memory unit and a digital flag associated with each firmware image in the non-volatile memory unit, where the boot code module is configured to execute a particular firmware image in response to the digital flags.

Method and system of switching between two or more images of firmware on a host device

A virtual electronic data library system has a plurality of storage elements. Each storage element is adapted to store a medium of a plurality of media. Preferably, a plurality of subsets of the media each have one format of a plurality of formats. A plurality of input/output elements are preferably adapted to receive and read the media stored in the storage elements. Each of the input/output elements is capable of operatively receiving media having at least one of the formats. A library controller has firmware wherein the subsets of the media are each assigned a logical unit number for use by the controller to partition the library. At least one transport is operable to remove the media from the storage elements and operatively deploy the media for use by one of the input/output elements. The transport deploys the media in an input/output element according to the logical unit numbers.

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Colette Toone Howe