INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND INFORMATION NOTIFYING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To economize capital investment for notifying information by automatically transmitting information about operation error of a device, use of a device, and the like in a cassette library consisting of a recording medium, a recording and reproducing means, and a recording medium carrying means using an electronic mail. SOLUTION: A cassette carrier 16 of a cassette library 1 moves a desired cassette K among an input/output port section 11 of a basic console 1B, a cassette storing shelf 15 of a cassette console 1c, a drive device 13 of a drive console 1D, and the like in accordance with request of a host computer 3. A library controller 2 has two kinds of information notifying functions using an electronic mail in a system of the cassette library 1, one of them is a regular report function in a which use information of a system is informed periodically in a set time, and the other is that error information is informed when an operator error is caused in a system.