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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2001
Robert G. Emberty, Tucson, AZ (US);
Craig Klein, Tucson, AZ (US);
David D. Mcbride, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory A. Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert G. Emberty, Tucson, AZ (US);
Craig Klein, Tucson, AZ (US);
David D. McBride, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory A. Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for emulating a fiber channel port. A controller is provided according to the invention that includes a fabric port and a virtual N port. The controller is adapted to buffer incoming data and convert an N port address provided with the data by a host computer to an instruction to the picker to couple the disk drive corresponding to the requested N port address to the virtual N port.