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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1998
William Tuccio, Sutton, MA (US);
Christopher Mulvey, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Farouk Khan, Wilmington, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A data storage system wherein a host computer is coupled to a bank of disk drives through a system interface. The interface has a memory with a high address memory section and a low address memory section. A plurality of directors control data transfer between the host computer and the bank of disk drives as such datapasses through the memory. A pair of high address busses electrically is connected to the high address memory and a pair of low address busses is electrically connected to the low address memory. Each one of the directors is electrically connected to one of the pair of high address busses and one of the pair of low address busses.