AUTOMATIC STORAGE SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING PRELIMINARY MOVEMENT OF INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA

摘要

PURPOSE:To improve the shortening of the time before the processing to record or reproduce the requested information recording medium is started by previously moving the information recording medium to be utilized near to a driving device. CONSTITUTION:A schedule result 203 is received in the automtic storage system for the information recording media from a supporting system 2 for operation to execute jog scheduling, etc., and the medium to be moved to a housing where the driving system is installed is recognized by a carrying-in medium recognizing section 102. The medium to be moved from the housing where the driving system is installed is determined in an carrying-out medium determining section 103. Which medium is to be moved to which housing is determined in a carrying- in/out housing determining section 104 and the result thereof is stored into a moving medium request command 109. The day's request frequencies are monitored by a request frequency monitoring section 105. The command 109 is executed when the request frequency is low.