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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2002
Alastair Michael Slater, Malmesbury, GB;
Mark Robert Watkins, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Michael Sparkes, Bristol, GB;
Alastair Michael Slater, Malmesbury, GB;
Mark Robert Watkins, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Michael Sparkes, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A tape drive assembly for performing a backup operation has a tape receiving station to receive a data storage unit including a tape to store data in a data backup operation. A write head writes data to the tape in a data backup operation. A non-volatile memory unit records data in a data backup operation and communicates data to the write head. An input connected to a data host machine passes data to the memory unit such that, in use in a data backup operation, the data are communicated from the data host machine to the input and recorded in the memory unit prior to the data being passed from the memory unit to the write head for writing to the tape.