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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventor:
Walter Wong, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Spectra Logic, Boulder, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/68 (2006.01); G11B 20/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01); G11B 5/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/00876 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01); G11B 5/78 (2013.01); G11B 15/6835 (2013.01); G11B 15/6895 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage library is described that essentially provides a write once and read many (WORM) conversion device integrated with a picker device all of which are inside of the data storage library. One embodiment contemplates that after receiving a request to store data in a WORM arrangement on a tape cartridge in the data storage library a tape cartridge selected from a scratch pool of tape cartridges can be converted to a WORM tape cartridge via the picker device, during the normal activity of using a picker device to grasp the selected tape cartridge.