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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2009
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Michael Gerard Goberis, Broomfield, CO (US);
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Michael Gerard Goberis, Broomfield, CO (US);
Spectra Logic Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A storage library is described including a first tape drive that is identified as a target tape drive to a host via a first address and a second tape drive that is masked from being identified by the host. The storage library further includes a controller that is linked with a switch system that shifts the first address to the second tape drive, from the first tape drive, such that after the shift, the second drive is identified as the target drive to the host and the first tape drive is masked from being identified by the host.