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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2001
Applicant:
William Joshua Price, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Inventor:
William Joshua Price, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Assignee:
3PARdata, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disk enclosure includes a first plurality of I2C elements powered by a first power domain and a second plurality of I2C devices powered by a second power domain. The first plurality of I2C elements are coupled via a first I2C bus and the second plurality of I2C elements are coupled via a second I2C bus. An enclosure controller has a third I2C bus selectively coupled via a multiplexer to the first or the second I2C bus.