发明名称 |
Controlling and managing plurality of disk drives in disk enclosure having serial port wherein serial to parallel converters are connected to individual disk drives |
摘要 |
A disk enclosure is provided with a plurality of HDDs, an enclosure manager that outputs control and management information of the disk enclosure, and S/P converters that are provided for the respective HDDs. Each S/P converter converts a control and management command outputted from the HDD in the form of a parallel signal into a serial signal and outputs it to the enclosure manager. Further, each S/P converter converts control and management information outputted from the enclosure manager into a parallel signal. With this configuration, merely providing a serial port in the enclosure manager and connecting the S/P converters to the enclosure manager by a serial bus can make the SES function of the ESI scheme effective for the HDDs.
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申请公布号 |
US7130939(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2006.10.31 |
申请号 |
US20020292052 |
申请日期 |
2002.11.12 |
申请人 |
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
SUMIYOSHI TOHRU;FUJIE YOSHIHIRO;MUKAI MAKIO |
分类号 |
G06F3/06;G06F3/00;G06F13/00;H04N5/781 |
主分类号 |
G06F3/06 |
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