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

Abstract

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.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 presenting a shingled magnetic recording hard drive to a resource manager of a host device as one or more recordable optical media; and   facilitating writing of data targeted for the one or more recordable optical media to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein presenting the shingled magnetic recording hard drive via the resource manager comprises emulating the one or more recordable optical media. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein shingled magnetic hard drive device is presented as an optical media autoloader jukebox. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein writing data targeted to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive comprises:
 queuing a data set in preparation for writing to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive; and   facilitating writing of the queued data set to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the resource manager comprises an operating system of the host device. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising interacting with the shingled magnetic recording device via a legacy application configured to operate with the one or more optical media. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the legacy application comprises one or more of a backup utility and a multimedia player. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the data comprises multimedia data. 
     
     
         9 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that cause an apparatus to perform the method of  claim 1 . 
     
     
         10 . A method comprising:
 presenting a shingled magnetic recording hard drive to a resource manager of a host device as an array of sequential access media; and   facilitating writing of data targeted for at least a selected one of the sequential access media to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein presenting the shingled magnetic recording hard drive via the resource manager comprises emulating the array of sequential access media as a tape autoloader. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein writing data targeted to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive comprises:
 queuing a data set in preparation for writing to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive; and   facilitating writing of the queued data set to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the resource manager comprises an operating system of the host device. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10 , further comprising interacting with the shingled magnetic recording device via a legacy application configured to operate with the array of sequential access media. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the data comprises multimedia data. 
     
     
         16 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that cause an apparatus to perform the method of  claim 10 . 
     
     
         17 . An apparatus comprising:
 one or more processors comprising:
 a hard disk drive interface operable to at least write to a shingled magnetic recording hard drive; and 
 a host interface operable to emulate the shingled magnetic recording hard drive to a resource manager of the apparatus as one or more write-once, read-many media, wherein at least one of the hard disk interface and host interface facilitates writing of data targeted for the one or more write-once, read-many media to the shingled magnetic recording hard drive. 
   
     
     
         18 . The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein the apparatus comprises a peripheral interconnect. 
     
     
         19 . The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein the shingled magnetic hard drive device is emulated as an optical media autoloader jukebox. 
     
     
         20 . The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein the shingled magnetic hard drive device is emulated as a tape autoloader.