Shock detection for a data storage device
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1. A removable data storage cartridge comprising:
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a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium, wherein the housing defines an aperture; and
a shock sense indicator disposed within said housing, wherein the shock sense indicator is disposed in a first position within the housing in substantial alignment with the aperture, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the shock sense indicator to physically displace from its first position such that the shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the aperture.
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Abstract
A data storage device has a shock sense indicator disposed within its housing. The shock sense indicator may provide visible, audible, and/or machine-detectable indication of whether the data storage device has been subjected to a physical shock over some threshold. Machine detection of the shock state can be accomplished optically, mechanically, or electrically. A data storage drive has a detection switch that interfaces with a shock detector of a data storage device to ensure that no harmful operation is performed on a data storage device that has been subjected to a physical shock, thereby avoiding potential loss or corruption of data.
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1. A removable data storage cartridge comprising:
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a data storage medium;
a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium, wherein the housing defines an aperture; and
a shock sense indicator disposed within said housing, wherein the shock sense indicator is disposed in a first position within the housing in substantial alignment with the aperture, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the shock sense indicator to physically displace from its first position such that the shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the aperture. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A data storage device comprising:
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a data storage medium;
a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium; and
a shock sense indicator disposed within said housing, wherein the shock sense indicator includes a detector pin disposed in a first position within the housing, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the detector pin to displace from its first position, the data storage device further comprising a baseplate, the detector pin being mounted to the baseplate, wherein the baseplate defines a thinned segment, the detector pin being attached to the baseplate at the thinned segment, and wherein the baseplate defines at least one slit and the detector pin is attached adjacent to the slit. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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- 15. A data storage drive for manipulating data stored on a removable data storage device, the data storage drive comprising a mechanism that interfaces with an aperture of the removable data storage device to determine whether a shock sense indicator disposed within a housing of the removable data storage device is in substantial alignment with the aperture, wherein the data storage drive determines that the removable data storage device has been subjected to physical shock over a threshold by determining that shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the aperture.
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23. A data storage system comprising:
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a removable data storage device comprising;
a data storage medium, a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium, wherein the housing defines an aperture, and a shock sense indicator disposed within the housing wherein the shock sense indicator is disposed in a first position within the housing in substantial alignment with the aperture, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the shock sense indicator to physically displace from its first position such that the shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the aperture; and
a data storage drive for manipulating data stored on the removable data storage device, the data storage drive comprising a mechanism that interfaces with the aperture to determine whether the shock sense indicator has displaced from it first position to indicate that the removable data storage device has been subjected to physical shock over a threshold.
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24. A removable data storage cartridge comprising:
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a data storage medium;
a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium, wherein the housing defines a window; and
a shock sense indicator disposed within said housing, wherein the shock sense indicator is disposed in a first position within the housing in substantial alignment with the window, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the shock sense indicator to physically displace from its first position such that the shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the window.
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25. A data storage system comprising:
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a removable data storage device comprising;
a data storage medium, a housing that substantially encloses at least a portion of the data storage medium, wherein the housing defines a window, and a shock sense indicator disposed within the housing, wherein the shock sense indicator is disposed in a first position within the housing in substantial alignment with the window, wherein physical shock in excess of a threshold causes the shock sense indicator to physically displace from its first position such that the shock sense indicator is not in substantial alignment with the window; and
a data storage drive for manipulating data stored on the removable data storage device, the data storage drive comprising a mechanism that interfaces with the data storage device to determine whether the shock sense indicator has displaced from it first position to indicate that the removable data storage device has been subjected to physical shock over a threshold.
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