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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 10, 2005
Applicant:
Robert Thibadeau, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Thibadeau, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage device with hardened security features has a storage medium, an interface, and a controller. The interface is adapted to communicatively couple the storage device to a host system. The controller is within the storage device and is adapted to read and to write information to and from the storage medium. The controller is adapted to require a security partition authorization from a manufacturer of the storage device before executing a security partition creation command received over the interface.