Patent ID: 9701476
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B65G,G11B

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining a location of a first drive in a storage medium library; determining whether a storage medium is located within a first distance from the first drive; in response to determining that a storage medium is not located within the first distance from the first drive, determining a location of a second drive in the storage medium library; determining whether a storage medium is located within the first distance from the second drive; in response to determining that a storage medium is located within the first distance from the second drive, making the storage medium available to be read by or written to by the second drive; in response to determining that a storage medium is not located within the first distance from the second drive, determining whether a storage medium is located within a second distance from the first drive, wherein the second distance is farther than the first distance; and in response to determining that a storage medium is located within the first distance or the second distance from the first drive, making the storage medium available to be read by or written to by the first drive.