Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channel

Details Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channel Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channel

2005-04-11

2010-06-22

Tsai, Henry W. H. (Department: 2184)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Frame forming

C710S033000, C710S005000, C710S074000, C370S466000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07743178

ABSTRACT:
A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.

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