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2007-09-11

2007-09-11

An, Meng-Al T. (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Master/slave computer controlling

Master accessing slave storage

C718S104000, C709S214000

Reexamination Certificate

active

09981519

ABSTRACT:
A method, system and computer program product for automatically switching remote shared devices in a dense server environment. A device driver in a server blade may be configured to receive a request to access a shared device from the server blade and issue a query to a service processor as to whether the requested shared device is being accessed. If the requested shared device is not being accessed by the requesting server blade, then the device driver may wait to receive a response from the service processor indicating that the requested shared device is available. Once the requested shared device is available, the service processor may connect the requested shared device with the requesting server blade. The request to access the requested shared device may then be transferred to the requested shared device by the device driver.

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