DISK AUTO CHANGER APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disk auto changer apparatus to which a drive of a different kind can be loaded. SOLUTION: In the disk auto changer apparatus provided with: a drive section D having different drives 131 to 13N and a board 11C for controlling the drives; and a changer section C having a magazine 14 in which recording/ reproducing available disks are contained while being mounted on a tray and a mechanism 15 for selecting the tray and the disk from the magazine and carrying the disk to the drive section, the drives have memories 131M to 13NM for storing parameters to control the drives, the drive section reads the parameters from each memory of the drive at application of power, refers to the read parameters and designates a drive from the changer section to control disk insertion/ejection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO