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Device, system and method for accessing plate-shaped memory

US6493787B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 10, 2000
Grant dateDec 10, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 10, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2207/16
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A drive apparatus wherein a plurality of media each including a memory element can be successively accessed to continuously write and/or read out data into and/or from the media includes a loading device for loading a plurality of storage media such that data are individually written into and/or read out from the storage media, an accessing circuit for accessing the storage media loaded in the loading circuit to write and/or read out the data into and from the storage media, and a controller for controlling, when the plurality of storage media are loaded in the loading circuit, the accessing circuit to continuously perform writing into and/or reading out from the plurality of storage media loaded in the loading circuit.

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