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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jackson L Ellis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Matthew C Muresan, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Graeme M Weston-Lewis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 62 ; 710105 ; 710-5 ;
Abstract
In a SCSI controller, unexpected messages are automatically received in response to an attention signal by receiving all of the bytes constituting the message and storing those bytes in an available register file selected from a plurality of register files in the controller. Once the entire message has been received and stored, a determination of an appropriate response is initiated. The register files are also used to hold selection information during a bus-initiated selection, so additional architecture is not required.