Magnetic tape device and method for controlling magnetic tape device
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorTsukasa MINEMURA
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Abstract
A magnetic tape device, includes: a base member movable in a front-back direction of a cabinet; a tape drive mounted rotatably to the base member at least between a first position facing a front surface of the cabinet and a second position facing a side surface of the cabinet; and a rotation unit configured to rotate the tape drive from the first position to the second position when a magazine detachably containing a magnetic tape cartridge is inserted into the cabinet, and to rotate the tape drive from the second position to the first position when the magazine is removed from the cabinet.
Claims18
A magnetic tape device, comprising:
- a base member movable in a front-back direction of a cabinet;
- a tape drive mounted rotatably to the base member at least between a first position facing a front surface of the cabinet and a second position facing a side surface of the cabinet;
- and
- a rotation unit configured to rotate the tape drive from the first position to the second position when a magazine detachably containing a magnetic tape cartridge is inserted into the cabinet, and to rotate the tape drive from the second position to the first position when the magazine is removed from the cabinet.
A magnetic tape device, comprising:
- a base member movable in a front-back direction of a cabinet;
- a tape drive rotatably mounted to the base member;
- a rotation unit configured to rotate the tape drive according to insertion or removal of a magazine detachably containing a magnetic tape cartridge;
- and
- a transport unit configured to move the magnetic tape cartridge to the tape drive after the tape drive faces the magnetic tape cartridge by rotation by the rotation unit.
A method for controlling a magnetic tape device, comprising:
- inserting a magazine detachably containing a magnetic tape cartridge, from a front surface of a cabinet of the magnetic tape device;
- changing an orientation of a magnetic tape cartridge insertion port of a tape drive, from the front surface of the cabinet to a side surface of the cabinet on the side on which the magazine is inserted, based on the inserting of the magazine;
- transporting the magnetic tape cartridge from the magazine to the tape drive;
- and
- executing reading or writing of data from or to the magnetic tape cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.