Lawrence William Gonzales

US Patent:

20090091853, Apr 9, 2009

Filed:

Oct 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/867569

Inventors:

Angqin Bai - Tucson AZ, US
Kent P. Bortz - Tucson AZ, US
Shawn O. Brume - Tucson AZ, US
Lawrence G. Gonzales - Tucson AZ, US

International Classification:

G11B 27/36

US Classification:

360 31

Abstract:

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for interchanging testing. A test module moves a first tape from a tape pool to a first reserved slot of plurality of reserved slots using an accessor. In an embodiment, there is one (1) reserved slot corresponding to each of a plurality of tape drives. Each reserved slot is configured to store one tape for the corresponding tape drive. No other tape drive accesses the stored tape from the reserved slot. Additionally, the test module loads the first tape to a first tape drive from the first reserved slot using the accessor, reads to end of at least two file marks on the first tape using the first tape drive, rewinds to a beginning of the first tape using the first tape drive, spaces forward on the first tape to a beginning of a second of the at least two file marks using the first tape drive, writes specified data to the first tape using the first tape drive, writes a new second file mark to the first tape using the first tape drive, and moves the first tape to the first reserved slot using the accessor.