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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Keiichi Yorimitsu, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711114 ; 711170 ; 39518204 ;
Abstract
In a disk array device, a logical device is defined by a plurality of hard disk drives, with the logical device formed by different types of hard disk drives. A logical device setting unit divides the storage area of each of the hard disk drives into parts and performs striping for the divided storage areas of the disk drives. Hence, a logical device can be defined taking into account the capacities of the hard disk drives and can be formed by using hard disk drives of different types.