公开(公告)号：EP1086459A1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-28

申请号：EP99927275.0

申请日：1999-06-08

申请人： IOMEGA CORPORATION

发明人： BRAITHWAITE, David, G. ,  REIMANN, Mark ,  JACKSON, G., Paul ,  FRAZIER, Alan ,  BERO, James, M. ,  ALFONSI, Daniel ,  SCHWARTZ, James, H. ,  BAR, Refael ,  FENG, Dai ,  HARMAN, James, S. ,  KEPLER, Robert, Neal

IPC分类号： G11B19/12 ,  G11B33/00 ,  G11B23/00 ,  G11B23/28 ,  G11B23/30 ,  G11B19/02

CPC分类号： G11B19/12

摘要： An apparatus and method for enabling/disabling selective features of a disk drive is provided. A data structure contained on a disk is read by the drive and based on this data structure, selective features of the drive are manipulated to improve the performance of the disk drive. The data structure is preferably disposed on a portion of the disk that is inaccessible to the host computer system. Additionally, the data structure preferably is read by the drive during disk insertion or activation and used to enable and/or disable features of the drive.