Patent ID: 8401694

Claim:
A management apparatus for managing a storage medium, the apparatus comprising: a rack including a cell to house a storage medium which has a first opening and a second opening; a robot to insert or eject the storage medium with respect to the cell through the first opening; and a controller to execute a process including: driving the robot to start inserting or ejecting the storage medium with respect to the cell, detecting a failure in inserting or ejecting the storage medium, the failure is detected when the robot starts inserting the storage medium into the cell when another storage medium is being inserted into the cell through the second opening or when the robot starts ejecting the storage medium from the cell when the storage medium is being ejected from the cell through the second opening, stopping the robot from inserting or ejecting the storage medium for a given time upon detecting the failure, and driving the robot to restart inserting or ejecting the storage medium with respect to the cell after the stopping.