| US 7,472,245 B2 | ||
| System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers | ||
| Peter Thomas Camble, Bristol (United Kingdom); Stephen Gold, Bristol (United Kingdom); Ian Peter Crighton, Bristol (United Kingdom); Curtis C. Ballard, Eaton, Colo. (US); and Chuck Roman, Loveland, Colo. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, Tex. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 30, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/323,545. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0168652 A1, Jul. 27, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 711—163 | 19 Claims |
| 1. A data library configured to isolate data for different users, comprising:
a plurality of physical partitions in a library;
at least one drive assigned only to each of the plurality of physical partitions; and
a reader on the at least one drive, the reader enabling the drive to read a unique identifier written to a medium cartridge
memory (CM) of a medium disposed in the drive and only accept the medium if the unique identifier is assigned to the drive
to restrict access to data such that different users cannot access each other's data even though data for the different users
is maintained in the same physical library.
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