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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1998
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 provided in a front panel block, a controller controls a manipulator of a robotics block so as to load magneto-optic (MO) disks in MO disk arrays constituted by connecting a plurality of MO drives and one Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk (RAID) controller. Then, when a RAID recording system is selected by the user, the controller controls the recording operation of the MO disk arrays in accordance with the selected recording system. More specifically, when a RAID recording striping system is selected by the user, the controller divides the data supplied from the outside and controls the recording operation of the MO drives so as to perform the recording in parallel by the MO drives. As a result, data such as image data may be handled with a high transfer speed.