System for providing an interrogating host computer with group s

Details System for providing an interrogating host computer with group s System for providing an interrogating host computer with group s

1996-12-31

1999-11-30

Lee, Thomas C.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral monitoring

360 69, 360 75, G06F 1314

Patent

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059960302

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for determining information about a plurality of disk storage devices connected to an interrogating host computer through a disk drive controller employ, in one embodiment, an EVPD Inquiry command to obtain from a disk controller, connected to the interrogating host computer over a SCSI bus, the necessary information for devices which are not accessible to the interrogating host. The disk drive controller has sufficient capability to obtain the necessary information from the disk storage devices and format it for presentation to the host computer using standard VPD pages.

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