Appeal No. 1999-0264
Application No. 08/573,582
efficient writing of information on a "rotating type recording
medium" such as a hard disk, the Examiner has not provided
evidence that would have suggested to the person having
ordinary skill in the art the desirability of modifying
Nakajima's tape drive system to include the microprocessor
taught by Kobayashi within the drive. Kobayashi does not
teach a system that fully inhibits writing to a given sector
of the drive: Kobayashi teaches that "when information having
been recorded in the initially specified block is determined
to be useless, the high-ranking apparatus can again issue a
write instruction in such a manner that the high-ranking
apparatus specifies the initially specified block once more
but now specifying the update write mode" (column 9, lines 1-
7). The microprocessor of Kobayashi thus does not inhibit
writing, but acts only to require the
"proper" mode from the higher rank device before permitting
writing to the desired sector.
Director and Purvis are relied upon for indicating when a
protected device is selected, and for a device monitoring
errors from a microprocessor, respectively, and do not supply
the motivation missing from Nakajima, Saldanha, and Kobayashi,
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