发明名称 |
Apparatus and method for adopting an orphan I/O port in a redundant storage controller |
摘要 |
A storage controller configured to adopt orphaned I/O ports is disclosed. The controller includes multiple field-replaceable units (FRUs) that plug into a backplane having local buses. At least two of the FRUs have microprocessors and memory for processing I/O requests received from host computers for accessing storage devices controlled by the controller. Other of the FRUs include I/O ports for receiving the requests from the hosts and bus bridges for bridging the I/O ports to the backplane local buses in such a manner that if one of the processing FRUs fails, the surviving processing FRU detects the failure and responsively adopts the I/O ports previously serviced by the failed FRU to service the subsequently received I/O requests on the adopted I/O ports. The I/O port FRUs also include I/O ports for transferring data with the storage devices that are also adopted by the surviving processing FRU.
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申请公布号 |
US7146448(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2006.12.05 |
申请号 |
US20040946341 |
申请日期 |
2004.09.21 |
申请人 |
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORPORATION |
发明人 |
DAVIES IAN ROBERT;MAINE GENE;PECONE VICTOR KEY |
分类号 |
G06F13/00;G06F11/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F13/00 |
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