Magazine for a plurality of removable hard disk drives
US6600703B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 26, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jul 29, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 8, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B33/128
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A magazine for a plurality of removable disk drives. The magazine provides physical and electrical support for the disk drives, and includes a magazine backplane for electrically connecting to the disk drives, and a module connector for electrically connecting to a host computer, preferably at a backplane of the library. Preferably, the magazine also supports a connecting circuit for implementing a fibre channel arbitration loop and intelligent hub for reconfiguring the fibre channel arbitration loop if one or more of the disk drives fails.
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