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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2006
Applicants:
Rhys Wyn Evans, Bristol, GB;
Alastair Michael Slater, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Rhys Wyn Evans, Bristol, GB;
Alastair Michael Slater, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/1456 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tape drive for exchanging data with a tape cartridge, which has tape media and auxiliary memory that is not tape media, is operable, in response to a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not a tape drive, to read boot data stored on the auxiliary memory and to output the boot data for booting the computer apparatus.