Patent ID: 7328285

Claim:
A method to display identifiers for one or more input/output devices disposed in a computer system, wherein said computer system comprises a visual display device, (N) input/output devices, wherein each of said (N) input/output devices is assigned a different device identifier, comprising the steps of: disposing, for each value of (i), a reference information storage medium in the (i)th input/output device, wherein (i) is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (N); determining a write capability of that (i)th input/output device; forming a Target Table; determining if the (i)th input/output device has an information storage medium mounted therein; if the (i)th input/output device has an information storage medium mounted therein, determining if said (i)th input/output device can write information to said mounted information storage medium; if said (i)th input/output device can write information to said mounted information storage medium, adding the device identifier assigned to said (i)th input/output device to said Target Table; receiving a SAVE AS command; simultaneously displaying using said visual display device identifiers for input/output devices that can write information from said Target Table upon receiving the SAVE AS command.