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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian Gerard Goodman, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael Philip McIntosh, Robin Daniel Roberts, Staley Bert Slawson, Raymond Yardy
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Disclosed are a system, a method, and a computer program product to provide for the expansion of an automated data storage library by the use of a multi-purpose frame. When the library is expanded, the multi-purpose frame functions as a service bay for the accessor. The multi-purpose frame that functions as a service bay is easily converted to a supplementary storage frame, when the library is expanded, to accommodate additional data storage media shelves and/or data storage drives. Because the multi-purpose frame is easily converted for use as either a service bay or a supplementary storage frame the relocation of library frames is avoided, thus simplifying and improving the expansion of the library.
A method for expanding an automated data storage library having one or more storage frames, a first accessor and a library controller for operating said automated data storage library, where said method comprises the steps of:
A method for expanding an automated data storage library having one or more storage frames, a first accessor, a second accessor, a service bay for servicing or storing said first accessor and a library controller for operating said automated data storage library, where said method comprises the steps of:
An expanded automated data storage library comprising:
An expanded automated data storage library, comprising:
A computer program product on a computer-readable medium usable with a programmable computer, said computer program product having computer readable program code embodied therein for expanding an automated data storage library having one or more storage frames, a first accessor, a multi-purpose frame attached to any one of said one or more storage frames and a library controller for operating said automated data storage library, where said computer program product comprises:
A computer program product on a computer-readable medium usable with a programmable computer, said computer program product having computer readable program code embodied therein for expanding an automated data storage library having one or more storage frames, a first accessor, a second accessor, a service bay for servicing or storing said first accessor, a multi-purpose frame attached to said service bay and a library controller for operating said automated data storage library, where said computer program product comprises:
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