[n: With Fixed Magazines Having Fixed Cassette Storage Cells, E.g. In Racks] [n0101] {g11b 15/68c} Patents (Class G9B/15.139)

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[n: details of magazines, e.g. removable, adapted for cassettes of different sizes] [n0101] {g11b 15/68c1} (Class G9B/15.14)
[n: wherein the recorder or player is moved according to the location of a selected cassette (g9b/15.143 takes precedence)] [n0101] {g11b 15/68c2} (Class G9B/15.141)
[n: the cassettes being transferred to a fixed recorder or player using a moving carriage] [n0101] {g11b 15/68c3} (Class G9B/15.142)
[n: the cassettes having a storage position inside the magazine and a slightly shifted active position, e.g. by solenoid] [n0101] {g11b 15/68c4} (Class G9B/15.143)
  • Method and apparatus for controlling load operations of a data storage cartridge that has been subjected to a shock event
    Publication number: 20130128384
    Abstract: A removable data storage cartridge has a shock sense indicator attached to its housing. The indicator includes a sensing structure that reacts to a shock event over a specified threshold. The invention indicates a physical shock event upon appropriate inquiry by the reader mechanism. Upon detecting that a shocked data storage cartridge has been loaded into a data storage library, the library and/or data storage drive alerts the operator and/or system administrator and moves the shocked cartridge to a quarantine pool to prevent damage to the data storage drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventor: Wayne D. Tolliver
  • SELF-DESCRIBING A PREDEFINED POOL OF TAPE CARTRIDGES
    Publication number: 20120127606
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated method for loading a first tape cartridge into a tape drive, the first tape cartridge formatted to include a user data partition and also to include an index partition, different than and sized smaller than the user data partition, to store an index that self-describes user data designated to the user data partition and to also store non-index data, then reading the non-index data in the index partition of the first tape cartridge to self-describe a second tape cartridge different than the first tape cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Thomas Starr