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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert Beverley Basham, Kirby Grant Dahman, Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Leonard George Jesionowski
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Data storage drives of an automated data storage library are allocated to received requests. A drive resource provider, upon receiving a request for a drive when all of the drives of the pool are allocated, holds any mount of a portable data storage cartridge relative to the request, releasing the hold when a drive is allocated. Spare drives are provided, outside of the pool. A spare drive may be allocated in response to the request, and a message is posted indicating use of the spare data storage drive. The posted message may comprise a notification that action may be taken to permanently transfer a spare data storage drive to the pool.
An allocation system for allocating data storage drives of an automated data storage library in response to at least one request for a data storage drive, said library storing a plurality of portable data storage cartridges in storage shelves and transporting said portable data storage cartridges between said storage shelves and said data storage drives for mounting and demounting said portable data storage cartridges at said data storage drives, comprising:
An allocation method for allocating data storage drives of an automated data storage library in response to at least one request for a data storage drive, said library storing a plurality of portable data storage cartridges in storage shelves and transporting said portable data storage cartridges between said storage shelves and said data storage drives for mounting and demounting said portable data storage cartridges at said data storage drives, comprising the steps of:
A computer program product of a computer readable medium usable with a programmable computer, said computer program product having computer readable program code embodied therein for allocating data storage drives of an automated data storage library in response to at least one request for a data storage drive, said library storing a plurality of portable data storage cartridges in storage shelves and transporting said portable data storage cartridges between said storage shelves and said data storage drives for mounting and demounting said portable data storage cartridges at said data storage drives, said at least one host application coupled to said data storage drives and to said automated data storage library, comprising:
An automated data storage library, coupled to at least one host application, comprising:
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