Process and device for operating an automatic data carrier archive

摘要

A process is useful for operating an automatic data carrier archive associated as a memory with a computer. The data carriers are transported to and fro between various stations of the data carrier archive by a control device of the data carrier archive. The stations of the data carrier archive comprise at least one data carrier store and on write/read station for the data carriers. In order to improve the availability of the data carriers, each transport operation corresponds to at least one transport function, a priority is assigned to each transport function, transport functions with high priority are executed with low priority transport functions, and when the computer requests a data carrier in the write/read station, at least the immediate transport between the write/read station and another station is executed with a transport of highest priority.