Magnetic recording control apparatus

摘要

A magnetic recording control apparatus includes conventional magnetic recording media, a large capacity type magnetic recording medium having a memory capacity corresponding to the sum of the capacities of a plurality of conventional magnetic recording media, recording unit for recording data of a plurality of conventional magnetic recording media to the large capacity type magnetic recording medium using a virtual volume corresponding to the recording capacity of one conventional magnetic recording medium and control data relating to the virtual volume as one recording unit, and/or division unit for dividing a data buffer for temporarily storing the data of the large capacity type magnetic recording medium into logical devices corresponding to the conventional magnetic recording media.