Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Richard D Gunlock

William C Galloway

Mark R Potter

Michael E McGowen

James F McCarty

A computer system with a plurality of devices compatible with the Fibre Channel Protocol, which computer system is provided with the capability to dynamically alter the configuration of the plurality of devices without a system reset, or without additional software overhead. This capability is realized by providing unique mapping relationships between low-level Fibre Channel information structures related to the devices and upper-level link elements compatible with an Operating System associated with the computer system.

System and method for automatically and dynamically changing an address

Computer system which varies the number of read requests outstanding to hard disk drives based on the mix of sequential and random requests. If a sequential request is received, a limited number of requests are allowed to be outstanding. If the requests are random, a growing number of read requests can be outstanding as the random requests continue, until a maximum number of write requests are allowed to be outstanding.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Richard D Gunlock