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Optimizing volume mounts in a multidrive environment

  • US 4,876,662 A
  • Filed: 05/02/1988
  • Issued: 10/24/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a machine-implemented method of operating a data storage system having a plurality of recorders/players for recording and reading data, each of the recorders/players for receiving and recording on and reading from record media;

  • the steps of;

    measuring elasped time since data was received that is targeted to a record medium received in a given one of said recorders/players;

    accumulating and measuring data to be transferred with respect to an unmounted record medium;

    mounting an unmounted record medium in said given one recorder/player only after said accumulated and measured data reaches a first predetermined amount of said data.

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