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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2007
Douglas Wallace Todd, Tucson, AZ (US);
Diana Joyce Hellman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael Philip Mcintosh, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jason Lee Peipelman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Douglas Wallace Todd, Tucson, AZ (US);
Diana Joyce Hellman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael Philip McIntosh, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jason Lee Peipelman, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring the activity of a tape drive system having one or more electro-mechanical components that receive electrical current from a power supply. The method includes sampling an actual current supplied to an electro-mechanical component of a tape drive system from a power supply during an activity; reading a theoretical current for said activity from a memory; calculating a statistical value for said actual current and said theoretical current; comparing said statistical value to at least one threshold value; and outputting information to at least one of a user, another system, and another process based on said comparison of said statistical value to said at least one threshold value.