Patent ID: 7161881
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An information handling system comprising: a host having plural components operable to run applications; a write application operable to run on the host to generate information; an optical drive interfaced with the host and operable to write the information to an optical medium according to a write strategy, the optical drive having an associated identification code and an optical drive write strategy table storing plural write strategies, the write strategies having one or more associated time stamps; and a write module associated with the optical drive and operable to select a write strategy associated with the optical drive identification from plural write strategies stored on the optical medium or the optical drive write strategy table, the optical medium having one or more associated time stamps, the write module further operable to write the information to the optical medium with the selected write strategy; wherein the write module is further operable to select a write strategy from either the optical drive write strategy table or the optical medium write strategies by analysis of the time stamps.