Steven Cory Sanders

US Patent:

6663986, Dec 16, 2003

Filed:

Dec 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/034007

Inventors:

Steven Castle Sanders - Louisville CO

Assignee:

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

International Classification:

G11B 539

US Classification:

428692, 428615, 428663, 428666, 428661, 360322, 36032722

Abstract:

A magneto-resistive (MR) stripe element includes a magnetically active body portion and a tri-layer electrical conductor structure arranged proximate the magnetically active body portion. The conductor structure has an alpha-Ta bi-layer film and a chromium capping layer. The alpha-Ta bi-layer film includes a chromium base layer and a tantalum layer. The capping layer caps the alpha-Ta bi-layer film such that the tantalum layer is disposed between the chromium base layer and the chromium capping layer. The tri-layer conductor structure has minimized compressive stress after deposition of the three layers and an even lower compressive stress after annealing. The thickness of the chromium capping layer is dependent at least upon the thickness of the chromium base layer such that the tri-layer conductor has a minimized compressive stress after deposition and annealing. The MR stripe element may be incorporated in a magnetic read head for reading data from a magnetic storage medium.

US Patent:

20160225403, Aug 4, 2016

Filed:

Jan 30, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/609497

Inventors:

- Redwood City CA, US
Steven Castle Sanders - Golden CO, US
Kathryn L. Baker - Redwood City CA, US

International Classification:

G11B 20/00
G11B 20/18
G11B 5/008

Abstract:

A data storage system that includes a data migration assembly implemented using tape drive technology. The migration assembly includes tape drive modules or cards stacked within a tape drive chassis, which is adapted for insertion into a tape drive slot of a library or rack enclosure. The data storage system includes a server running a host application to manage data migration processes by transmitting control commands and/or parameters to the tape drive module. The tape drive module, in response, performs the data migration including data extraction from the source device and data loading onto the destination device. The data path passes between the source and destination devices through the tape drive cards but does not include the server running the host application so that data security is provided by the tape drive module along the entire data path rather than data being at risk in a server.

US Patent:

20160041915, Feb 11, 2016

Filed:

Oct 23, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/921054

Inventors:

- Redwood City CA, US
Steven Sanders - Golden CO, US

International Classification:

G06F 12/08
G11B 5/008

Abstract:

Systems and methods that substantially or fully remove a commanding server from a data path (e.g., as part of a data migration, disaster recovery, and/or the like) to improve data movement performance and make additional bandwidth available for other system processes and the like. Broadly, a network interface card (e.g., host bus adapter (HBA)) of a tape drive may be configured in both a target mode to allow the tape drive to be a recipient of control commands from a server to request and/or otherwise obtain data from one or more source tape drives, and in an initiator mode to allow the tape drive to send commands to the one or more tape drives specified in the commands received from the server to request/read data from and/or write data to such one or more tape drives.