发明名称 |
Method and apparatus for hot-swapping a hard disk drive |
摘要 |
Methods and apparatus are provided for hot swapping a hard disk drive. A gateway is connected between the disk drive and the bus leading to the host adapter. The gateway can isolate the disk drive from the bus prior to a disk drive being removed and can signal to the host adapter when a new drive has been installed. The gateway can de-isolate the newly installed disk drive from the bus to allow the host adapter to communicate with the newly installed disk drive. Additionally, the gateway can remove system power from a disk drive being removed and ramp up power to a newly installed disk drive while system power is uninterrupted for other components of the computer system. An adapter may be provided to connect a disk drive to the gateway, and the gateway and the adapter engage and/or disengage during the hot-swapping of the disk drive.
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申请公布号 |
US7159063(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2007.01.02 |
申请号 |
US20020143585 |
申请日期 |
2002.05.10 |
申请人 |
AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC. |
发明人 |
SIVERTSEN CLAS GERHARD |
分类号 |
G06F13/36;G06F3/06;G06F13/38;G11B33/12 |
主分类号 |
G06F13/36 |
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