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 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007