International Business Machines Corporation

Richard Curtis Cleavinger

Kent D Prosch

Kevin Lee Kidney

John Timothy O'Brien

Scott E Burton

John Houkal

Nelson W Gildenmeister

A method for configuring a computer network that includes a full duplex bi-directional first port and an initiator that can issue a request for the first port to assume a state. The first port, when in a first state, is able to bi-directionally communicate with a full duplex bi-directional second port, and when in a second state, is coupled to itself by having an output thereof coupled to an input thereof. The method comprises inhibiting the initiator from issuing the request, sending data to the initiator describing a desired state of the first port, and enabling the initiator to issue the request for the first port to assume the desired state.

Method and system for configuring a computer network

In a computer system including a disk controller and a disk drive, the disk controller determines whether to issue a command to the disk drive by considering both a priority level associated with the command, and a pending workload of the disk drive.

Method and system for ordering priority commands on a commodity disk drive

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Richard Curtis Cleavinger