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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2000
Yoshitaka Mitsunari, Saitama, JP;
Atsuki Tada, Saitama, JP;
Harui Koizumi, Saitama, JP;
Satomi Kasuga, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Sugawara, Saitama, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Prior to the control of disk transportation, from each of plural incorporated disk drives, a changer controller acquires an identifier peculiar to the disk drive via a local bus line, and recognizes correspondence relationships between element addresses and the disk drives. In response to arrival of a first request command, the recognized correspondence relationships are sent to a computer system serving as the request source. Furthermore, in response to arrival of a second command, also each of the disk drives sends the identifier to the computer system serving as the request source via the SCSI controller.