Blade server switch module using out-of-band signaling to...

Details Blade server switch module using out-of-band signaling to... Blade server switch module using out-of-band signaling to...

2006-07-28

2008-12-30

Peyton, Tammara R (Department: 2182)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral adapting

C710S008000, C710S072000, C710S073000, C711S151000, C711S170000, C714S005110, C714S006130, C714S042000, C714S043000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07472211

ABSTRACT:
A system for communication between components in a computer storage system includes a drive enclosure device having a plurality of disk drives. A switch module is electrically coupled to the drive enclosure device. The module has a plurality of physical layer links (PHYs). The module generates out-of-band (OOB) signals to transmit to the drive enclosure device, detects a physical location of an active drive enclosure device by interrogating the PHYs, and sends a serial management protocol (SMP) instruction to the drive enclosure device to perform a task, the SMP instruction based on the physical location.

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