Disk magazine and disk changer system
AssigneeHitachi Maxell, Ltd.
InventorTamotsu Iida
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Abstract
A disk magazine accommodating therein a plurality of disks having a thickness of 0.3 mm or less and constructed to be made integral with a recording unit, in which management information including hysteresis information and inherent information of disks accommodated in the disk magazine is recorded. The management information includes, as inherent information of disks, information of a defective disk, or information of a disk pulled out from the disk magazine to be missed.
Claims12
A disk magazine accommodating therein a plurality of disks having a thickness of 0.3 mm or less and constructed to be made integral with a recording unit, in which management information including hysteresis information and inherent information of disks accommodated in the disk magazine is recorded,
- the management information including, as inherent information of disks, information of a defective disk, or information of a disk pulled out from the disk magazine to be missed.
A disk changer system in which a disk magazine accommodating a plurality of disks, wherein a disk is taken out from the disk magazine and a recording/reproducing operation of information is carried out,
- the disk changer system comprising management information acquisition means for communication with a recording unit, in which management information of the plurality of disks accommodated in the disk magazine is recorded, to acquire the management information, and
- processing control means, which specifies the disk magazine on the basis of the management information acquired by the management information acquisition means and controls a recording/reproducing operation for disks accommodated in the disk magazine, and
- wherein the recording unit is integrally mounted with the disk magazine.
A disk changer system in which disk magazines each accommodating a plurality of disks, wherein a disk is taken out from the disk magazine and a recording/reproducing operation of information is carried out,
- the disk changer system comprising a plurality of shelves for mounting thereon a plurality of disk magazines,
- management information acquisition means for communication with a recording unit, in which management information of a plurality of disks accommodated in the disk magazine is recorded, to acquire the management information, and
- processing control means, which specifies the disk magazine on the basis of the management information acquired by the management information acquisition means and controls a recording/reproducing operation for disks accommodated in the disk magazine, and
- wherein the management information acquisition means includes communication means provided on each of the plurality of shelves to communicate with a recording unit provided on the plurality of disk magazines, and relates an inherent address of a disk magazine included in the recording unit and an inherent address of a shelf set for each of the plurality of shelves to each other to recognize the plurality of disk magazines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.