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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189283 | Disk drive with state-information data buffer A hard-disk drive (HDD) is described. During operation of the HDD, measured internal temperatures in the HDD may be stored in a first table, and state information specifying operational states of the HDD associated with ranges of internal temperatures may be stored ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8149532 | Tape cartridge auxiliary memory containing tape drive functional status information A data storage library is described including a plurality of tape cartridges each possessing an auxiliary radio frequency memory device. The library also includes, at least one tape drive capable of determining at least one functional status when loaded with one of ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134795 | Using an atmospheric pressure sensor in a hard-disk drive (HDD) Approaches for determining the likelihood that a hard-disk drive (HDD) will experience an imminent error in operation, and preventing the same, using an atmospheric pressure sensor are provided. The HDD comprises an atmospheric pressure sensor capable of determining... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125726 | Storage system controlling power supply module and fan When a disk device corresponding to a logical volume is started, a disk system determines and starts a disk device and a fan to be started, while comprehensively considering heat quantity generated by the disk device to be started, the cooling capacity of the fan, a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107183 | Method and device for hard drive shock event detection A method and system for sensing the current applied to the motor of a data storage device and determining whether a shock event has occurred by processing the sensed current levels. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107184 | Operation control apparatus, operation control method, operation control program controlling operation of magnetic disc device For an apparatus determining whether or not an HDD is started by barometric pressure information or the like, there are provided a navigation apparatus, an operation control device, an operation control method, and an operation control program, that enable shortenin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085488 | Predicting operational problems in a hard-disk drive (HDD) A method and apparatus for determining the likelihood that a hard-disk drive (HDD) will experience an imminent error in operation is provided. The HDD comprises a differential pressure sensor capable of measuring the difference in the pressure between the interior a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8035911 | Cartridge drive diagnostic tools In one embodiment, a method of diagnosing an error in a cartridge drive, comprises detecting an occurrence of a defined event in a cartridge drive, in response to the defined event, initiating an analysis routine of at least one event log from the cartridge drive, a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7995301 | Method and apparatus for determining a location of a defect on a storage medium A defect is detected on a storage medium of a disk drive. A location of the defect is determined, within a smallest addressable unit of data stored on the storage medium. An indication of the location is stored in a memory. A location of a sensor of the disk drive r... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7982999 | Information storing device and method for controlling same to record/reproduce information by selecting one of working modes An information storing device and an information processing device having a memory for registering a plurality of working modes at recording/reproduction and a switching circuit for selecting one of the plurality of working modes, which select the optimum working mo... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965468 | Magnetic racetrack memory device including write-back loop A magnetic racetrack memory device includes; a magnetic track having a plurality of magnetic domains partitioned by at least one magnetic domain wall, a current source applying current to the magnetic track sufficient to move the at least one magnetic domain wall an... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961419 | Storage apparatus and control method therefor A storage apparatus comprises at least one housing A in which a storage device and a controller are provided, at least one housing B in which a storage device and a peripheral device are provided, and a transmission path for connecting the storage device and the con... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957087 | Servo write method and servo write system for hard-disk drive A servo write method for a hard-disk drive. The method includes generating, with an input of characteristics of a magnetic-recording head and a magnetic-recording disk which are incorporated into the hard-disk drive, a yield prediction model from a correlation betwe... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7924525 | Hybrid termination of transmission line for driving hard disk drive head Drive circuitry for driving a load through a connection to a transmission line, such as for driving the write head of a hard disk drive. A hybrid termination is provided for termination at the connection to the transmission line. The termination is hybrid since ther... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916417 | Magnetic disk apparatus and recording method A magnetic disk apparatus includes a computing unit that obtains data to be recorded on a magnetic disk and computes an intermediate bit length based on a longest bit length and a shortest bit length of bit lengths of the obtained data; an adjusting unit that adjust... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903362 | Recording apparatus, server apparatus, recording method, program, and storage medium A data recording apparatus recording data of a CD on an HDD in a manner such that the content of record in the CD is faithfully accounted for and shortening an operation time for a synchronized ripping operation. When the data recording apparatus reads, from the CD,... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7872826 | Disk storage device and control method for the same Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a disk storage device and a control method for the disk storage device, which are capable of precluding an off-track write resulted from stick-slip caused by thermal distortion. A magnetic disk device is p... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869154 | Magnetic tape driving apparatus A magnetic tape driving apparatus includes a magnetic head (2), a temperature/humidity sensor (4), a Peltier element (11), and a controller (15). The temperature/humidity sensor (4) that detects the temperature and humidity of the ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864478 | Verification of a tape data storage cartridge The provision of verification for data storage cartridges having data storage tape media employs determining the volume identity of a data storage cartridge; and providing an internal label at each block of data to be written to the data storage tape media of the da... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7817369 | Implementing power savings in an automated storage system In a method of implementing power savings in an automated storage system, a power savings mode authorization is sent from a library controller to a tape drive, such that the tape drive is authorized to enter an extended power savings mode that maintains an operation... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813072 | Method and apparatus for improving performance of hard disk drive at low temperature A method and an apparatus for improving performance of a hard disk drive at low temperature are provided. The method includes: measuring an internal temperature of the hard disk drive; checking whether a measured internal temperature is not more than a predetermined... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7768734 | Storage device and method of controlling spindle motor of storage device In a storage device, before activating a spindle motor (SPM) or continuously from activation until the SPM is stabilized at a target number of rotations, a voltage and temperature monitoring unit monitors the temperature in a disk enclosure unit and the voltage to b... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7751141 | Management of data cartridges in multiple-cartridge cells in an automated data storage library In an automated library, data cartridges, such as magnetic tape cartridges, are stored in storage cells and accessed by data storage drives. An accessor with a gripper transports cartridges between storage cells and storage drives. Cartridges are prioritized accordi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738209 | Recording medium driving device A magnetic disk device includes a VCM coil that controls the movement of a head for recording or reproducing information onto and from a rotating magnetic disk, and an airflow guiding unit that guides an airflow occurring by the rotation of the magnetic disk toward ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7719782 | Fast forward magnetic tape cartridge at first mount Handling a magnetic tape cartridge comprises the steps of reading cartridge mount information from the cartridge memory; determining from the cartridge mount information whether the present mount is the first mount of the magnetic tape cartridge; and if so, fast for... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715142 | Hard disk drive controller, image forming apparatus and storage medium with recorded computer program A hard disk drive controller including a determining unit that determines an external dimension of a hard disk drive that is provided with a motor for rotating a hard disk and a head that is retractable from the hard disk; and a changing unit that changes control of... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710680 | Storage system controlling power supply module and fan When a disk device corresponding to a logical volume is started, a disk system determines and starts a disk device and a fan to be started, while comprehensively considering heat quantity generated by the disk device to be started, the cooling capacity of the fan, a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701658 | Vehicle system and method for preparing an in-vehicle device A method for preparing an in-vehicle device includes monitoring a communication bus for one or more messages. The method also includes determining if at least one of the one or more messages corresponds with a message in a list of messages indicative of a change in ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701659 | Electronic apparatus having built-in hard disk device A hard disk device has a temperature detection device operable to detect a temperature in the hard disk device. A controlling section is operable to control functions of an electronic apparatus. A notifying section is operable to notify an abnormality of the electro... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697228 | Apparatus, system, and method for interchange testing 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 e... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697229 | Method and system for writing information to a tape cartridge A tape drive system for a tape cartridge including a tape and wireless identification tag may read information from the wireless identification tag and write the information to the tape. The tape drive system may toggle a bit stored on the wireless identification ta... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7667918 | Disk array device Provided is a highly reliable disk array device. Specifically, this disk array device has a number of hard disk drives for respectively storing data, and which converts a first direct voltage supplied to each of the hard disk drives via a common power supply bus int... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7652838 | Library device A feeding mechanism includes a first feeding mechanism and a second feeding mechanism that operates during non-operation of the first feeding mechanism. A movement control unit that performs a control of moving the feeding mechanism towards a housing cabinet. A swiv... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639493 | Storage control device The storage control device of the present invention reduces power consumption by stopping the flow of power to enclosures that are not being accessed. A plurality of additional enclosures are connected to a base enclosure by means of a daisy-chain connection. The re... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636219 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and magnetic recording and reproducing method A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a recording device configured to record with a write head a plurality of tracks constituting a unit of signal processing for data detection, to magnetic recording media; a reproduction devic... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7630160 | Magnetic disk drive, preamplifier for magnetic disk drive, flexible printed cable assembly for magnetic disk drive Embodiments of the present invention help to improve the cost, mountability, and reliability of a magnetic disk drive that regulates a fly height of a magnetic head slider correspondingly to the operating altitude of the drive by using an air pressure sensor and a h... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616396 | Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing method A header information acquiring section is operable to acquire header information of reproduction data to be reproduced from a hard disk. A bit rate information extracting section is operable to extract information on a bit rate at which the reproduction data is repr... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609471 | Tape cartridge auxiliary memory containing tape drive functional status information A data storage library is described including a plurality of tape cartridges each possessing an auxiliary radio frequency memory device. The library also includes, at least one tape drive capable of determining at least one functional status when loaded with one of ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599141 | Disk drive apparatus, electronic circuit for disk drive apparatus and powering method therefor According to one embodiment, a disk drive apparatus includes a disk having a plurality of tracks formed of approximately concentric patterns, a head slider reading and writing data from and to the disk, a motor driver configured to move the head slider to a target p... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7580215 | Disk drive apparatus and imaging apparatus having the disk drive apparatus for controlling a state thereof based on a detected temperature A disk drive apparatus having access to a disk-shaped recording medium includes: a temperature detecting mechanism configured to detect an internal temperature; and a temperature control mechanism configured to change the disk drive apparatus to either an operating ... | 08/25/2009 |
