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System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers

  • US 7,000,085 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2001
  • Issued: 02/14/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for securing access to a data medium comprising:

  • listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in memory storage of said data transfer element;

    accessing only media having at least one of said listed unique identifiers in media cartridge memory with said data transfer element; and

    writing a unique identifier associated with said data transfer element to said cartridge memory of a selected medium with said data transfer element in response to no library assigned unique identifier being present in said cartridge memory of said selected medium.

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