Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem

Details Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem

1997-06-23

1998-09-29

Hua, Ly

39518318, G06F 1100

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058156500

ABSTRACT:
Predictive failure analysis of a storage subsystem is efficiently conducted and data quickly recovered from a failed Read operation. This may be implemented in a storage system including a host coupled to a supervising processor that couples to a parity-equipped RAID storage subsystem having multiple HDAs each including an HDA controller and at least one storage medium. In one embodiment, when an HDA experiences an error during a Read attempt, the HDA transmits a recovery alert signal to the supervising processor; then, the processor and HDA begin remote and local recovery processes in parallel. The first process to complete provides the data to the host, and the second process is aborted. In another embodiment, an HDA's PFA operations are restricted to idle times of the HDA. A different embodiment limits HDA performance of PFA to times when the processor is conducting data reconstruction. Another embodiment monitors HDA errors at the supervisory processor level, initiating an HDA's PFA operations when errors at that HDA have a certain characteristic, such as a predetermined frequency of occurrence.

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