Tape library system and method of diagnosing tape cartridges
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTakaaki Yamato, Shigeru Tsukada, Nobuyuki Hirashima
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Abstract
A tape library system includes a plurality of cartridge cells for accommodating a plurality of tape cartridges respectively, a tape drive for writing and reading data to and from the tape cartridge inserted therein, a diagnosis drive for diagnosing the tape cartridge inserted therein, an cartridge carriage mechanism for inserting and ejecting the tape cartridge into and from the tape drive and the diagnosis drive, and a diagnosis controller for controlling the cartridge carriage mechanism to load the tape cartridge into the diagnosis drive and for controlling the diagnosis drive to diagnose the tape cartridge inserted therein.
Claims8
A tape library system comprising:
- a plurality of cartridge cells for accommodating a plurality of tape cartridges respectively, each of the tape cartridges including a tape medium therein;
- a tape drive for writing and reading data to and from the tape cartridge inserted therein;
- a diagnosis drive for diagnosing the tape cartridge inserted therein for physical damage, the diagnosis drive performing a diagnosis operation of loading and unloading of the tape medium in the tape cartridge and transmitting a notice of completion of the diagnosis operation when the diagnosis operation is successfully completed to the unloading;
- a cartridge carriage mechanism for inserting and ejecting the tape cartridge into and from the tape drive and the diagnosis drive;
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- a diagnosis controller for controlling the cartridge carriage mechanism to load the tape cartridge into the diagnosis drive and for controlling the diagnosis drive to diagnose the tape cartridge inserted therein, wherein
- the diagnosis controller controls the diagnosis drive to perform the diagnosis operation, diagnoses the tape cartridge as not being abnormal when receiving the notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive, and diagnoses the tape cartridge as being abnormal when not receiving the notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive within a predetermined period.
A method of diagnosing a tape cartridge accommodated in a tape library system by a diagnosis controller in the tape library system, comprising:
- inserting the tape cartridge into a diagnosis drive in a tape library system for diagnosing the tape cartridge;
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- diagnosing the tape cartridge inserted into the diagnosis drive for physical damage, the diagnosing including:
- performing a diagnosis operation of loading and unloading of a tape medium in the tape cartridge inserted in the diagnosis drive,
- diagnosing the tape cartridge as not being abnormal when receiving a notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive, and
- diagnosing the tape cartridge as being abnormal when not receiving the notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive within a predetermined period.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program for a tape library to execute a process for diagnosing a tape cartridge, the process comprising:
- inserting the tape cartridge into a diagnosis drive for diagnosing the tape cartridge;
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- diagnosing the tape cartridge inserted into the diagnosis drive for physical damage, the diagnosing including:
- performing a diagnosis operation of loading and unloading of a tape medium in the tape cartridge inserted in the diagnosis drive,
- diagnosing the tape cartridge as not being abnormal when receiving a notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive, and
- diagnosing the tape cartridge as being abnormal when not receiving the notice of completion of the diagnosis operation from the diagnosis drive within a predetermined period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.