Tape drive bezel for use with multiple accessors

A tape drive, comprising:

• a bezel for receiving a tape cartridge containing a magnetic recording tape, said bezel comprising;
• a housing for engaging a front of the tape drive;
• an opening in the housing for receiving the tape cartridge;
• and
• a plurality of fiducials on the front of the housing, wherein each fiducial of the plurality of fiducials provides an alignment target for one of a plurality of robotic assemblies to insert or remove the tape cartridge in the opening of the housing;
• a motor drive for moving the magnetic recording tape linearly and bidirectionally;
• a magnetic head for magnetically recording data on the magnetic recording tape and for sensing magnetically recorded data on the magnetic recording tape;
• an actuator for positioning said magnetic head to access various tracks on the magnetic recording tape;
• and
• a read/write channel coupled electrically to the magnetic head for magnetically recording data on the magnetic recording tape and for reading data recorded on the magnetic recording tape.

A bezel for a tape drive, comprising:

• a housing for engaging a front of a tape drive;
• an opening in the housing for receiving a tape cartridge;
• and
• a plurality of fiducial means for aligning a robotic assembly to insert or remove the tape cartridge in the opening of the housing, said fiducial means located on a front surface of the housing.