公开(公告)号：JPH10124176A

公开(公告)日：1998-05-15

申请号：JP25458597

申请日：1997-09-19

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： DWAYNE THOMAS CLUMP ,  ROBERT CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ ,  ROBERT EDWARD SWAINVAGLER

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/18 ,  G11B17/04

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the required desk top space and to obtain an easy and user-friendly access to a madia device making the opening of a direct access storage device accessible in open position and making the opening part of the direct access storage device inaccessible in closed position. SOLUTION: A drive bay housing 30 housing a floppy disk drive 22 and a CD-ROM drive 24 is moved between the open position and the closed position. At the time of the open position, a user performs access to the opening part of the floppy disk drive 22 or the CD-ROM drive 24 or both of them so as to respectively insert/remove a floppy or a compact disk at need. On the contrary at the time of the close position, the opening parts of the floppy disk drive 22 and the CD-ROM drive 24 are hidden by the front pannel of a base member so as to be inaccessible.