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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert M. Long, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Overland Data, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ; G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/300 ; G11B 1/722 ; G11B 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ; G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/300 ; G11B 1/722 ; G11B 1/500 ;
Abstract
A media element library defines a viral configuration different from the physical configuration of media and drives actually present in the library. A plurality of host computer systems communicate with the library as if they were communicating with a conventional library having a physical configuration identical to the virtual configuration defined by the library.
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