METHOD FOR EXECUTING SECURITY OPERATION OF MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, METHOD FOR CANCELLING PASSWORD ON MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, AND COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for easily changing security settings of an HDD without stopping the operation of an OS. SOLUTION: Access requests issued from request programs to the HDD are queued and the HDD is reset. Prohibition of security setting operations is cancelled. On completion of setting change operations, the queueing is stopped to cancel access restriction from the request programs to the HDD. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT