Presentation of shingled magnetic recording device to a host device resource manager

摘要

A shingled magnetic recording hard drive is presented to a resource manager of a host device as an emulated device such as one or more optical media, an array of sequential access media, and/or write-once, read-many device. Data targeted for the emulated device is written to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
an interface configured to couple to a magnetic recording drive with overlaid data tracks; and a processor circuit coupled to the interface and configured with instructions that cause the processor circuit to facilitate writing to the magnetic recording drive as at least one of an emulated optical media device and an emulated tape device.