International Business Machines Corporation

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Yoshihiro Fujie

Tohru Sumiyoshi

Yoshihiko Terashita

Gregg Steven Lucas

Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam

Kenneth Robert Schneebeli

Michihiro Okamoto

Kenji Hidaka

Koji Nakase

Kifumi Numata

Robert Akira Kubo

Jason Aaron Matteson

Mohamad H El-Batal

Tony Carl Sass

Bret W Lehman

Krishnakumar Rao Surugucchi

Ronald Dean Parrish

Robert Mark Lindsay

Hirokazu Nishimura

Atsushi Watanabe

Makio Mukai

Thomas Sing-Klat Liong

A data storage library includes a drive enclosure bay which can be adapted to work with multiple air-flow configuration requirements. This is accomplished by creating air-flow ports in the top and bottom of the drive enclosure bay, by forming drive tray slots and printed circuit board ports in associated drive trays, by creating frame ports and PCB notches in associated interface cards, and replacing traditional connectors with slimmer but longer connectors that provide additional standoff and improved air-flow.

Air distribution system compatible with disparate data storage systems

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for integrating a blade RAID controller and storage. A storage blade enclosure communicates with a blade chassis. The storage blade enclosure is mounted within the blade chassis. A RAID controller disposed in the storage blade enclosure receives a command through the storage blade enclosure. In one embodiment, the command is communicated through the blade chassis from a processor blade mounted in the blade chassis. The RAID controller redundantly stores data to or retrieves data from a storage module disposed in the storage blade enclosure in response to the command using a RAID redundancy methodology.

Apparatus, system, and method for integrated blade raid controller and storage

A disk-drive storage assembly includes an interface card configurable to couple to a plurality of hard-disk drives. The interface card has a plurality of first vent openings to expose a surface area of each of the plurality of hard-disk drives. A drive chassis tray is coupled to the interface card having a plurality of second vent openings. The second vent openings are staggered to shift the exposed surface area of the hard-disk drives. A disk storage device includes a plurality of hard-disk drives. An interface card is coupled to the plurality of hard-disk drives. The interface card has a plurality of first vent openings to expose a surface area of each of the plurality of hard-disk drives. A drive chassis tray is coupled to the interface card having a plurality of second vent openings defined by a plurality of cross bars.

Multiple hard disk drive assembly cooling

An active noise canceller outputs a noise pattern learning request signal to a hard disk drive causing the hard disk drive to perform a predetermined operation, receives noise at this moment through a sound-receiving unit, and stores, in a nonvolatile memory unit, a relationship between the noise and a head operation data signal output from the hard disk drive. Based on the operation data signal outputted from the hard disk drive, the active noise canceller generates a noise-canceling sound while making a reference to the above relationship stored in the nonvolatile memory unit. Therefore, the signal processing needs a low degree of response for operating the noise-canceling sound.

Noise reduction system, disk storage unit, hard disk drive and noise reduction method

A storage system in which a set of a data block and a redundancy block is stored has a plurality of control sections which respectively control a plurality of storages, a host connection unit which selects the control section controlling one of the storage in which a write data block which is a write-object block is to be stored, and a transfer unit which transfers the write data block to the control section. Each of the plurality of control sections includes a data block write section which writes the write data block transferred by a transfer unit to the storage in which the write data block is to be stored, a redundancy block update request section which requests the control section controlling the storage in which a redundancy block is to be stored to update the redundancy block, and a redundancy block update section which updates the redundancy block stored in the storage controlled by the control section when another of the control sections makes a request for updating the redundancy block.

Storage system, controller, control method and program product therefor

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.

Controlling and managing plurality of disk drives in disk enclosure having serial port wherein serial to parallel converters are connected to individual disk drives

The present invention describes a method and system for interfacing a plurality of device controllers to an array of data storage devices by serial connection. The device controllers are coupled to a serial interface by a bus and the devices of the storage array are coupled to the serial interface by a serial connection. The serial interface receives controller signals through the bus and multiplexes the signals onto the serial connections of the storage array. Arbitration between the various device controllers seeking access to the storage array is resolved through bus protocol and through drive based reserve/release registers in the serial interface processor.

Serial interface for a data storage array

A storage control and switch unit for transferring data between a host computer and first, second, third and fourth storage media. A first storage controller has an operative serial ATA connection with each of the first and second storage media and an inoperative serial ATA connection to each of the third and fourth storage media. A second storage controller has an operative serial ATA connection with each of the third and fourth storage media and an inoperative serial ATA connection to each of the first and second storage media. First, second, third and fourth switches are logically interposed between the first, second, third and fourth storage media, respectively, and the first and second storage controllers to select which serial ATA connection to each storage media is operative and which is inoperative. In response to failure of one of the storage controllers, the other storage controller changes the operable switches of the one storage controller to be inoperable and changes the inoperable switches of the other storage controller to be operable. The other storage controller is granted management authority for the arrays controlled by the one storage controller before the failure. Disclosed is a storage unit provided with redundancy, an information processing apparatus including the same, and a recovery method of an information storage system. A storage unit of the present invention includes a plurality of arrays, each including at least one storage medium; point-to-point controllers, each of which manages the corresponding one of the plurality of arrays and communicates with the same, each of point-to-point controllers being connectable to all the storage medium; switching means for switching the point-to-point controllers, each managing the arrays; means for detecting a failure of each point-to-point controller; and means for driving the switching means in response to detection of the failure of each controller. The storage unit changes management states of arrays in response to the detection of a failure.

System and method for transferring data from a secondary storage controller to a storage media after failure of a primary storage controller

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Fujisawa, Japan

Yoshihiro Fujie