Method for integrating a module into a storage library
AssigneeStorage Technology Corporation
InventorsRichard Alan Luif, Timothy Alan Shafer
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Abstract
A method for modifying an information storage library. The invention includes a method for testing a new library storage module (LSM) to be added or included in the library. The method uses a portable simulated Library Management Unit (LMU) to test the new LSM prior to its incorporation into the library. Prior testing reduces down time of an existing information storage library when a new LSM is added.
Claims23
A method for modifying an information storage library including the step of constructing a second library storage module (LSM) in proximity to a first LSM, said first LSM connected to a host library management unit (LMU), said method comprising the steps of:
- connecting a simulated LMU to said second LSM;
- utilizing said simulated LMU to perform diagnostic testing on said second LSM wherein said diagnostic testing includes:
- measuring the motion functions of a robotics means in said second LSM;
- measuring the motion functions of a pass through port in said second LSM;
- measuring the Local Area Network (LAN) communication and operation between said second LSM and said information storage library;
- measuring the alignment of storage cells in said second LSM with a robotics means in second LSM;
- and
- integrating said second LSM into said information storage library.
A method for performing diagnostic testing on a second library storage module (LSM) to be added to an existing information storage library, said existing information storage library including at least a first LSM and a library management unit (LMU) to control the functions of said first LSM, said method including the step of constructing said second library storage module (LSM) in proximity to said first LSM, said method comprising the steps of:
- connecting a simulated LMU to said second LSM;
- instructing said simulated LMU to perform said diagnostic testing,
- said step of instructing further including the step of entering
- a set of instructions onto a microprocessor card in said simulated LMU;
- and
- integrating said second LSM into said existing information storage library.
A method for testing a library storage module (LSM) comprising the steps of:
- connecting a simulated LMU to said LSM;
- utilizing said simulated LMU to perform diagnostic testing on said LSM by entering a set of instructions onto a microprocessor card in said simulated LMU wherein said diagnostic testing includes:
- measuring the motion functions of a robotics means in said LSM;
- measuring the Local Area Network (LAN) communication and operation between said LSM and said simulated LMU;
- and
- measuring the alignment of storage cells in said LSM with a robotics means in said LSM.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.