Patent ID: 9536558
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G11B

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request to erase a set of records recorded on a storage medium; identifying a data set (DS) corresponding to the set of records to be erased from the storage medium, with the set of records including a first record and a last record; reading, by a read head of a storage drive, a data set information table (DSIT) indicating location(s) of each record of the set of records in the data set (DS), while the storage medium is moving in a first moving direction relative to the storage drive determining whether the data set (DS) includes a beginning of the first record; and on condition that the data set (DS) includes the beginning of the first record, writing new data, by a write head of the storage drive, across the range while the storage medium continues to move in the first moving direction relative to the storage drive.