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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
May. 24, 2011
Scott Milton Fry, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Reed A. Hancock, Tucson, AZ (US);
James M. Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
Pamela R. Nylander-hill, Tucson, AZ (US);
Eiji Ogura, Yokohama, JP;
Scott Milton Fry, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Reed A. Hancock, Tucson, AZ (US);
James M. Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Tucson, AZ (US);
Eiji Ogura, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes: deciding to perform a refresh operation on a media cartridge having a tape wrapped around a spool; determining which drive of a plurality of drives is available to perform the refresh operation; causing the media cartridge to be mounted to the available drive; causing the drive to unwrap the tape from the spool of the media cartridge to about an end of the tape; and causing the drive to wrap the tape back onto the spool after the unwrapping, wherein at least some data on the tape is overwritten with new data, and a verification operation is performed using the new data.
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