AUTOMATED TAPE CARTRIDGE AUTOLOADER/LIBRARY SYSTEM

AUTOMATED TAPE CARTRIDGE AUTOLOADER/LIBRARY SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for managing, keeping and supplying a plurality of tape cartridges for accessing a tape drive. SOLUTION: The tape cartridge autoloader/library system includes at least one read/write tape drive, a tape cartridge picker, a single tape cartridge i...

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Hauptverfasser: PATTERSON SCOTT RYAN, THOMAS KIM M, PORTER RYAN STUART, DAI THUA NANG, BERRY DAVID RAY, SADLER GARY EUGENE, COLLINS PAT ELIOT, CHAN ALEXANDER, FELTON CHRISTOPHER LEE, JOHNSON PETER A, OADE THEODORE JAMES, WEN SAM, MAGLIA DOMINIC JOHN, OWENS JOHN C
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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INFORMATION STORAGE
INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for managing, keeping and supplying a plurality of tape cartridges for accessing a tape drive. SOLUTION: The tape cartridge autoloader/library system includes at least one read/write tape drive, a tape cartridge picker, a single tape cartridge interface, and at least a pair of tape cartridge transport magazines in a small form factor housed in the standard library rack mount base of a cabinet. The autoloader/library system is an accomplished tape cartridge library which stores and manages a plurality of tape cartridges, and automatically exchanges the plurality of tape cartridges among the tape drive unit, the single cartridge interface, and the tape cartridge transport magazines.