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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2006
Nigel Ronald Evans, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Malcolm George Clarke, Bristol, GB;
John Mark Mackelden, Bristol, GB;
Nigel Ronald Evans, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Malcolm George Clarke, Bristol, GB;
John Mark Mackelden, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Data stored on a tape in a plurality of data recording sessions employs tape drive apparatus programmed to record the data in accordance with a format specifying a log of tape-usage information. The log is in the form of a data structure including a plurality of log sections in which tape usage information is recorded relating respectively to corresponding ones of the plurality of data recording sessions. The log sections together constitute a cumulative record of tape usage covering the corresponding plurality of recording sessions, each log section in respect of a recording session comprising an identifier of the tape drive apparatus used for that recording session and a count of the recording session.