Control method and storage apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsShigeru SAKAMOTO, Katsuo Enohara
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Abstract
A control method for information processing apparatus includes is provided. The control method includes receiving a lock instruction, locking a library device into a locked state at which insertion, removal and replacement of a medium in the library device is inhibited and/or prevented in response to the lock instruction, generating a map that indicates one or more media in the library device and a position of each of the media, receiving a power-off instruction, and powering off the library device while maintaining the library device in the locked state in response to the power-off instruction.
Claims16
A control method for an information processing apparatus comprising:
- receiving a lock instruction;
- locking a library device into a locked state in which insertion, removal and replacement of a medium in a library device is inhibited in response to the lock instruction;
- generating a map that indicates one or more media in the library device and a position of each of the media;
- receiving a power-off instruction;
- and
- powering off the library device while maintaining the library device in the locked state in response to the power-off instruction.
A storage apparatus for storing data comprising:
- a library device to house at least one medium;
- a locking mechanism to set the library device to a locked state in which insertion, removal, and replacement of the at least one medium is inhibited in response to a lock instruction;
- and
- a control process unit to receive a power-off instruction and the lock instruction, to generate a map that indicates the at least one medium in the library device and a position of each of the at least one medium, and to power off the library device while the library device is maintained in the locked state in response to the power-off instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.