Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Hierarchical memories
Patent
1995-12-21
1998-09-15
Teska, Kevin J.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Hierarchical memories
39515205, 395309, 395822, 395840, 395382, 711114, G06F 1206
Patent
active
058092854
ABSTRACT:
A computer system having a virtual drive array controller incorporated therein. The virtual drive array controller enables plural physical devices, which may be of a single type of device or a combination of multiple types of devices, to be represented to the computer system as a single logical drive. The virtual drive array controller includes a front end coupled to a secondary storage bus and a back end to which plural physical devices are coupled. Additional virtual drive array controllers may be arranged in a cascading configuration by coupling the additional virtual drive array controllers to the back end of the virtual drive array controller.
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Compaq Computer Corporation
Phan Thai
Teska Kevin J.
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