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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2010
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Nathan Christopher Thompson, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark Lorin Lantry, Erie, CO (US);
Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Boulder, CO (US);
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Nathan Christopher Thompson, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark Lorin Lantry, Erie, CO (US);
Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Boulder, CO (US);
Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A storage library is described that includes a tape magazine that possesses at least one spare slot and a number of other addressable slots that each contains a tape cartridge. Each addressable slot is mapped and made known to a host when the host is linked to the storage library. One of the addressable slots contains a tape cartridge that prior to being mapped as an addressable slot was formerly a spare slot unmapped to the host and the current spare slot was formerly mapped as an addressable slot.