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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Yoshihiro Machiguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A changeable storage device for storing a plurality of recording media having the same physical form but different logical formats. A desired recording medium is selected from the stored recording media, and data is recorded on or reproduced from the selected recording medium. A storage system for managing the recording media stored in the changeable storage device, discriminating the type of each of the stored recording media, and storing the type information in a memory included in the changeable storage device, so that a host computer may request information stored in the selected recording medium by transmitting the type information of the selected recording medium to the changeable storage device through a given interface. The changeable storage device manages the storage media using the type information for discriminating the type of the recording medium stored in the memory included therein.