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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Guy A Carbonneau, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Bernie Wu, Longwood, FL (US);
Tim Jones, Deltona, FL (US);
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
An intelligent status monitoring, reporting and control module is coupled to a SCSI bus that interconnects a cluster of SCSI-compatible data storage modules (e.g., magnetic disk drives). The status monitoring, reporting and control module is otherwise coupled to the cluster of SCSI-compatible data storage modules and to power maintenance and/or other maintenance subsystems of the cluster for monitoring and controlling states of the data storage modules and power maintenance and/or other maintenance subsystems that are not readily monitored or controlled directly by way of the SCSI bus. The status monitoring, reporting and control module sends status reports to a local or remote system supervisor and executes control commands supplied by the local or remote system supervisor. The status reports include reports about system temperature and power conditions. The executable commands include commands for regulating system temperature and power conditions.