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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Michael Bent, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Ian Davies, Longmont, CO (US);

Mohamad El-Batal, Superior, CO (US);

Ujjwal Lanjewar, Kharadi, IN;

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11B 33/04 (2006.01); G11B 5/53 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G11B 5/53 (2013.01); G11B 33/0466 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

Each disk drive in an array includes a housing that encloses a motor and at least one magnetic disk. The housing also encloses first and second actuators each with respective first and second heads that independently access the magnetic disk. The first actuator is mapped to a first logical unit and the second actuator is mapped to a second logical unit. A host interface of each disk drive facilitates access to the first and second logical units. A system includes a first storage controller attached to all of the first logical units as a first active server and attached to all of the second logical units as a first passive server. A second storage controller operates redundantly with the first storage controller. The second storage controller is attached to all of the second logical units as a second active server and attached to all of the first logical units as a second passive server.


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