Patent ID: 9368148
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: B65G,G11B

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing magazine-based data storage library that comprises a plurality of chambers each adapted to hold a magazine wherein at least one of said chambers is a vacant chamber that is devoid of holding one of said magazines; receiving a first instruction from a host computer to move a first tape cartridge from a first physical slot to a first data transfer device; in response to said first instruction, moving a first magazine that possesses said first tape cartridge from a first chamber to said first data transfer device, via a robotic transporter, and loading said first tape cartridge in said first data transfer device; receiving a second instruction from said host computer to move a second tape cartridge from a second physical slot to a second data transfer device after said first instruction; after receiving said second instruction, moving said first magazine to said vacant chamber and disposing said first magazine in said vacant chamber; after disposing said first magazine in said vacant chamber, moving a second magazine that possesses said second tape cartridge from a second chamber to said second data transfer device, via said robotic transporter, and loading said second tape cartridge in said second data transfer device; and after loading said second tape cartridge in said second data transfer device, holding said second magazine near said second data transfer device pending a third instruction to return either said first tape cartridge to said first physical slot or said second tape cartridge to said second physical slot.