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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
May. 19, 2003
Glen Alan Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Paul Bartlett, Bristol, GB;
Gregory Alyn Unruh, San Clemente, CA (US);
Glen Alan Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Paul Bartlett, Bristol, GB;
Gregory Alyn Unruh, San Clemente, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Boise, ID (US);
Certance, LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A cartridge handling system and method initialize a data storage cartridge having rewritable media and a cartridge memory for tamper resistant write once recording. A write-once flag is written to a lockable section of the cartridge memory also having a cartridge memory serial number, and the section locked to read-only. A write-once flag and the serial number are written to a required data set of the rewritable media, both thereby appearing in both locations of the cartridge.