Patent ID: 6918040
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method of upgrading a storage library, the method comprising: providing with a storage library a hardware component which has requisite hardware elements used for running the hardware component either at low or high operating levels, wherein the amount of the requisite hardware elements used for running the hardware component at the high operating level is greater than the amount of the requisite hardware elements used for running the hardware component at the low operating level; setting the hardware component to run at the low operating level until an upgrade module having permission instructions for the hardware component to run at the high operating level is associated with the storage library; associating an upgrade module having the permission instructions for the hardware component to run at the high operating level with the storage library; and enabling the hardware component to run at the high operating level in response to the upgrade module being associated with the storage library thereby upgrading the storage library.