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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Gregory E. Burns, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Alejandro R. Martinez, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Keith Pollock, Tomball, TX (US);
Ronald G. Phillips, Houston, TX (US);
John H. Marino, Cypress, TX (US);
Dennis J. Alexander, Spring, TX (US);
Gregory E. Burns, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Alejandro R. Martinez, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Keith Pollock, Tomball, TX (US);
Ronald G. Phillips, Houston, TX (US);
John H. Marino, Cypress, TX (US);
Dennis J. Alexander, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A configurable storage array includes a backplane, a plurality of storage devices coupled to the backplane, a segmentable bus coupled to the storage devices, a plurality of input/output connectors coupled to the segmentable bus, and a control board. The control board includes control logic adapted to determine an arrangement of connectors coupled to the input/output connectors and configure the segmentable bus to define a plurality of storage device arrays based on the arrangement. A method for configuring a storage array having a plurality of storage devices includes determining an arrangement of connectors coupled to input/output connectors of the configuring a storage array; and grouping subsets of the storage devices onto isolated bus segments in the storage array based on the arrangement of connectors.