Controlling and managing plurality of disk drives in disk...

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2006-10-31

2006-10-31

Peyton, Tammara (Department: 2182)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral adapting

C710S001000, C710S074000, C710S072000, C710S305000, C386S349000, C386S349000, C386S349000, C711S111000, C711S112000, C711S113000, C711S114000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07130939

ABSTRACT:
A disk enclosure is provided with a plurality of HDDs, an enclosure manager that outputs control and management information of the disk enclosure, and S/P converters that are provided for the respective HDDs. Each S/P converter converts a control and management command outputted from the HDD in the form of a parallel signal into a serial signal and outputs it to the enclosure manager. Further, each S/P converter converts control and management information outputted from the enclosure manager into a parallel signal. With this configuration, merely providing a serial port in the enclosure manager and connecting the S/P converters to the enclosure manager by a serial bus can make the SES function of the ESI scheme effective for the HDDs.

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