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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2004
Daisuke Isobe, Odawara, JP;
Azuma Kano, Odawara, JP;
Akihisa Hirasawa, Oadawara, JP;
Shingo Itagaki, Ninomiya, JP;
Kenichi Tateyama, Odawara, JP;
Yoshinori Nagaiwa, Ninomiya, JP;
Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hadano, JP;
Daisuke Isobe, Odawara, JP;
Azuma Kano, Odawara, JP;
Akihisa Hirasawa, Oadawara, JP;
Shingo Itagaki, Ninomiya, JP;
Kenichi Tateyama, Odawara, JP;
Yoshinori Nagaiwa, Ninomiya, JP;
Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hadano, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention manages disk-drive types in a storage device in which a mixture of disk drives of a plurality of types with different interfaces is stored. The storage device enclosure stores a mixture of an FC disk driveF with a fiber channel interface and a SATA disk drive with a serial interface. The SATA disk drive is connected to a fiber channel via an FC/SATA interface connection devicethat performs interface conversion. At startup and so forth, the controllerissues an inquiry to the enclosure management unit or to each of the disk drives and, based on the address allocated to each of the disk drives, or similar, automatically confirms the type of each disk drive and manages the confirmation results.