Patent ID: 8908485
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: G06T,G11B

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a tape drive for reading from and/or writing to magnetic tape media, the tape drive having a memory; logic configured to monitor a plurality of parameters relating to operation of the tape drive to collect data from the operation of the tape drive; logic configured to receive a specification of one or more user-specified parameters to log during one or more collection windows, wherein the one or more user-specified parameters are specified from the plurality of parameters; logic configured to log at least some of the data collected from the operation of the tape drive to the memory during the one or more collection windows, wherein the at least some of the data collected is stored in a tape map comprising a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields comprising: logic configured to dynamically overlay one or more fields from the plurality of fields with data collected from the one or more user-specified parameters.