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Title:
AUTOMATED HARDWARE SENSING AND LIBRARY CONFIGURATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2002015187
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for automatically configuring a robotic storage media library is disclosed. The disclosed invention utilizes software to interpret signals from specially designed hardware to determine the hardware characteristics of the library at startup. The software then uses these characteristics to automatically configure the library without user intervention.

Inventors:
CREAGER ROBERT S
RIES JAMES
Application Number:
PCT/US2001/025321
Publication Date:
August 29, 2002
Filing Date:
August 13, 2001
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Assignee:
STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORP (US)
International Classes:
G11B15/68; G11B17/22; G11B27/00; G11B27/13; (IPC1-7): G11B27/00; G11B27/36; G11B17/22; G06F3/06; G11B15/68
Foreign References:
EP0989550A12000-03-29
US5164909A1992-11-17
US5323327A1994-06-21
EP0475624A11992-03-18
US5946160A1999-08-31
US6113341A2000-09-05
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