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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Bret S. Weber, Wichita, KS (US);
Russell J. Henry, Wichita, KS (US);
Bret S. Weber, Wichita, KS (US);
Russell J. Henry, Wichita, KS (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
System and methods for managing requests of a host system to physical storage partitions. A storage system includes a plurality of storage elements with each storage element configured for providing data storage. A communications switch is communicatively connected to the storage elements for transferring requests to the physical storage partitions. A host system includes a storage router for mapping a portion of the physical storage partitions to logical storage partitions such that the host system can directly access the portion via the requests. Each of the storage elements includes a storage controller configured for processing the requests of the host system. The storage elements also include any of a disk storage device, tape storage device, CD storage device, and a computer memory storage device.