Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for automatically providing a frame count, a frame identification, and state information to respective frames in a modular multi-frame tape library system. SOLUTION: Signals 20 having delay values specified by the respective frames are generated by the respective frames and fed to the respective frames for determining the total number of the frames in the tape library system. Reference pulses are generated by the respective frames and compared with delay signals generated by the respective frames. State signals are generated by the respective frames and fed to the respective frames. The state signals are adapted to pulse generators, delay signal generators 12, and state registers 14, and the respective frames are connected to each other along a multi-channel bus 16 carrying the signals generated by the respective frames. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO