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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Frank David Gallo, Rogers, AR (US);
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ronald Faye Hill, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
Roberta Lee Winston, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Drives of a data storage library are concurrently configured. A processor transmits library configuration data separately to each drive, initializes a first configuration process state, with a time-out period, for each drive. A drive responds with a status response, the first process state is updated to “completed”. A request for drive unique information is transmitted to the responding drive, advancing the process to a second state, with a time-out period. A drive responds with the information, and the second process state is updated to “completed”, and the received information is stored.