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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1996
Yoshio Aoki, San Diego, CA (US);
Hideyoshi Horimai, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When a plurality of magneto-optic disks are inserted via a mail slot (12) provided in a front panel block (1), a controller block (23) controls a manipulator of a robotics block (2) so as to load the magneto-optic disks in Magneto-Optic disk arrays (4) and (5) constituted by connecting a plurality of Magneto-Optic drives and one Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk controller. When the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk recording system is selected by the user, the controller block (23) controls the recording operation of the Magneto-Optic disk arrays (4) and (5) in accordance with the selected recording system. More specifically, when the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk recording system of striping is selected, the controller block (23) divides the data supplied from the outside and controls the recording operation of the Magneto-Optic drives so as to perform the recording in parallel by the Magneto Optic drives. Thus, it becomes possible to handle data of a high transfer speed such as image data.