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INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION OF A STORAGE-SHELF ROUTER AND A PATH CONTROLLER CARD FOR COMBINED USE IN HIGH-AVAILABILITY MASS-STORAGE-DEVICE SHELVES THAT MAY BE INCORPORATED WITHIN DISK ARRAYS
INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION OF A STORAGE-SHELF ROUTER AND A PATH CONTROLLER CARD FOR COMBINED USE IN HIGH-AVAILABILITY MASS-STORAGE-DEVICE SHELVES THAT MAY BE INCORPORATED WITHIN DISK ARRAYS
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机译:集成在磁盘阵列中的高可用性大容量存储设备架中的存储架路由器和路径控制卡的集成电路实现
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One embodiment of the present invention is an integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router (1102), used in combination with path controller cards (1110) and optionally with other storage-shelf routers (1104), to interconnect SA' disks (1108) within a storage shelf (1100) or disk array to a high-bandwidth communications medium, such as an FC arbitrated loop (1008). When two, four, six, or eight or more storage-shelf routers are used within a storage shelf, and tl interconnections between the storage-shelf routers, disk drives, and external communications media are properly designed and configured, the resulting storage shelf constitutes a discrete, highly-available component that may be included in a disk array or in other types of electronic devices. The storage-shelf router features a disk-drive adaptation layer (3604) that allows a storage-shelf router to interface to, and manage, any of many different types of disk drives (3608-3611). The disk-drive adaptation layer includes a disk-profile table (3902) and associated firmware logic.
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