International Business Machines Corporation

Kyle J Honadel

John Lee Colbert

Steven Dale Greseth

Neil A Anderson

Cal W Johnson

A direct access storage device (DASD) cage holds a DASD sled which contains an electronic DASD. The sled has a base plate, side walls and a front portion. The cage has side walls and a forward panel. Each side wall of the cage has a groove for receiving an outer edge of the base plate. The front portion interfaces the DASD with a machine connector. The sled has a slidable handle and a pair of pivotable latches which engage the handle. Each latch has an inner finger and an outer finger. Each inner finger engages a slot in the handle while each outer finger moves inward and outward. Stops in the base plate limit the travel of the inner fingers. The handle is pulled rearward to a disengaged position before the sled is installed in the cage. The outer edges of the base plate are placed in the grooves and the sled is pushed forward into the cage. When the sled is half-way into the cage, the latches will partially engage the grooves to stop the movement of the sled. From this position and by pushing the handle forward, the inner fingers are pushed forward by the slots in the handle so that the outer fingers rotate into engagement with profiles in the grooves and the DASD is connected to the machine connector. The sled is removed by pulling the handle rearward so that the outer fingers disengage the profiles. As the sled is removed from the cage, the DASD simultaneously disengages the machine connector.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Kyle J Honadel