Appeal No. 1999-0162
Application No. 08/414,248
was entered by the Examiner. Accordingly, only the final
rejection of claims 26-45 is before us on appeal.
The claimed invention relates to a method for operating a
library of multi-disk cartridges, the library including
multiple disk drives and a cartridge picker. The cartridge
picker operates to exchange multi-disk cartridges between disk
drives. Each disk drive includes a disk picker for exchanging
selected disks with a selected multi-disk cartridge.
Claim 26 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
26. A method for operating a library of multi-disk
cartridges, said library including multiple disk
drives and a cartridge picker to exchange multi-disk
cartridges between the disk drives, each disk drive
including a respective disk picker, said method
comprising:
a first step of operating the cartridge picker
to load a first multi-disk cartridge in a
first one of the disk drives;
a second step of operating a first disk picker
in the first disk drive to exchange a first
selected disk with the first multi-disk
cartridge;
a third step of operating the cartridge picker
to unload the first multi-disk cartridge
from the first disk drive;
a fourth step of operating the cartridge picker
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