Patent ID: 6480971
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
A media library apparatus comprising:a transportation mechanism that transports a transportable medium; a storage section that stores a plurality of transportable media; a plurality of drive devices each of which reads or writes desired data on a selected one of the media; and a controller which causes a group of the media that are to be simultaneously subjected to a data striping process to be inserted in said plurality of drive devices, said controller controlling operation of said plurality of drive devices, in a parallel fashion, so as to perform the data striping process on the media inserted in said drive devices, wherein, for each of the media that are to be simultaneously subjected to the data striping process, a management region is set to store common management information, and wherein said controller obtains representative management information, in accordance with a predetermined criteria, from among the management information stored in respective ones of the management regions of the media that are to be simultaneously subjected to the data striping process and performs processing based on the obtained representative management information.