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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
Thomas J. Kocis, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for adding an internal RAID controller. The system and method includes a plurality of hard disk drives storing data. Hard disk drive bays receive the hard disk drives. A modified hard disk drive bay accepts a RAID controller. The user inserts the RAID controller into the modified hard disk drive bay allowing data transfer between the hard disk drives, the RAID controller, and the motherboard of the computer on two interface loops. One interface loop, the control loop, provides an interface between the loop controller on the motherboard and the RAID controller. The other interface loop, the storage loop, provides an interface between the RAID controller, the hard disk drives, and any external hard disk drives. The RAID controller communicates with the motherboard allowing RAID functionality among the hard disk drives.