Computer structure with modular housings

Details Computer structure with modular housings Computer structure with modular housings

1997-03-17

1998-06-02

Phillips, Michael W.

Electricity: electrical systems and devices

Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...

For electronic systems and devices

361727, G11B 3302, G06F 116, H05K 710

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active

057610320

ABSTRACT:
A new frame structure for a multiple drive library computer system having a plurality of storage drives and a number of electronic and mechanical subsystems, each drive having a media-inserting face abutting a robotic media inserter, and an electrical connection face opposite to said media-inserting face. The frame structure comprises a primary frame structure which contains a number of said subsystems, and one or more modular drive housings, attachable to said primary frame structure, in which are mounted one or more of said storage drives, wherein each of said modular drive housings, and the drive(s) mounted therein, is removable from said primary housing as a unit. The frame structure with modular housings allows good drives in a multiple drive library computer system to remain online, and accessible to a host, during the repair of one or more failed drives.

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EPO Search Report dated Feb. 5, 1997, Application No. EP 96 10 9263.

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