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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2010
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
Wayne I. Imaino, San Jose, CA (US);
David A. Pease, San Jose, CA (US);
Rainer Richter, San Jose, CA (US);
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
Wayne I. Imaino, San Jose, CA (US);
David A. Pease, San Jose, CA (US);
Rainer Richter, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system according to one embodiment includes a tape cartridge, the tape cartridge comprising: a housing; a magnetic recording tape in the housing; and a non-tape nonvolatile memory coupled to the housing, the nonvolatile memory being for storing therein an index comprising file system information for a plurality of files stored on the magnetic recording tape. A method for storing data on a tape cartridge according to one embodiment includes writing a plurality of files to a magnetic recording tape of a tape cartridge; and writing an index to a non-tape nonvolatile memory of the tape cartridge, the index including information about locations of data of the plurality of files on the magnetic recording tape.