PARITY DRIVE SETUP METHOD AT AN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE ARCHIVE SYSTEM CAPABLE OF IMPROVING THE DURABILITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE OPTICAL DISK DRIVE ARCHIVE SYSTEM

摘要

PURPOSE: A parity drive setup method at an optical disk drive archive system is provided to effectively prevent only one among a plurality of optical disk drives of a drive bay as a parity drive from being continuously used.;CONSTITUTION: A controller stores different parity drive setup information per magazine in magazine management information(S10). The controller searches the parity drive setup information if the optical disks of random magazine is inserted in the optical disk drives of a drive bay(S11~S13). The controller automatically sets up the random optical disk drive of the drive bay as a parity drive according to a search result(S14).;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2012