Data storage media library with scalable throughput rate for data routing and protocol conversion
US6766412B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jul 20, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 19, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B2220/90
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A digital data storage unit, such as tape library, has a multiplicity of storage media slots, each storage media slot for receiving a storage media unit, a plurality of storage media units loaded in particular ones of the storage media slots, a plurality of data transfer devices for writing data to and reading data from the storage media units, a plurality of data transfer device interfaces corresponding to the plurality of the data transfer devices, each data transfer device interface configured for transferring data between a corresponding data transfer device and a host computing environment, a loader mechanism for selectively moving a storage media unit between a storage media slot and one of the plurality of data storage drives, and a storage unit controller connected to the loader mechanism and to the data transfer device interfaces, wherein the storage unit controller is configured for connection to the host computing environment to receive and decode one or more host commands sent by the host computing environment at the storage unit controller, and for controlling the loader mechanism for selectively moving storage media units from the storage media slot locations to the d…
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