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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sanket Rathi, Hyderabad, IN;

Purna Chandra R. Jasti, Hyderabad, IN;

James P. Allen, Austin, TX (US);

Gary S. Domrow, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1443 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 11/2033 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for protecting data integrity in a multiple path input/output environment are provided. When sending a write command that includes data to be written to a target device from an initiator device over a specified first path of a plurality of paths by which the target device is in communication with the initiator device when a fault in the first path is detected and the status of the write command indicates that the write command was fully transmitted to the target device, a second path of a plurality of paths is selected, a reset command is sent over the second path from the initiator device to the target device, and after sending the reset command, the data are retransmitted in a second write command that a path other than the first path from the initiator device to the target device.


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