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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Fay Chong, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Fay Chong, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a disk array storage system includes multiple disk drive modules that contain sets of drives and a number of storage controllers. Each storage controller is connected to a group of disk drives from two or more disk drive modules. The number of disk drives from the same disk drive module that are connected to the storage controller does not exceed a predefined number.