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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Hitoshi Rikukawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kyouichi Isomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Kodama, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitsugu Taki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An information managing apparatus for providing an external apparatus with requested information in response to an instruction from the external apparatus and/or recording information has an accommodation unit for accommodating recording media, a plurality of replaceable drives for recording and/or reproducing information onto and/or from the recording media, and a transfer means for taking out a desired recording medium from the accommodation unit and transferring it to a selected one of the drives. One of manipulation means is manipulated to select a drive as a subject of replacement. A control means opens an information transmission path between the selected drive and the external apparatus. After confirming the opening of the information transmission path, the control means causes a display means to display a message to the effect that the replacement of the drive concerned has been permitted.