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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark E Wanger, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395309 ; 369 30 ;
Abstract
A system for interfacing an optical disk autochanger having a robot and a plurality of disk drives to a host includes a master SCSI bus, a subordinate SCSI bus, a SCSI multiplexer and a move controller. The master SCSI bus is connected to the host. The subordinate SCSI bus is connected to the plurality of disk drives. The multiplexer is connected between the master SCSI bus and the subordinate SCSI bus. The multiplexer transfers communications between the host and a selected disk drive. The move controller receives jukebox control commands from the host and selects the disk drive based on the jukebox control commands.