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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Curtis C Ballard, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Carl R Hoerger, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/68 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 23/04 (2006.01); G11B 33/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1205 (2013.01); G11B 15/68 (2013.01); G11B 15/689 (2013.01); G11B 15/6835 (2013.01); G11B 23/042 (2013.01); G11B 23/046 (2013.01); G11B 33/10 (2013.01); G11B 2220/90 (2013.01);
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.


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