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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
James W. Smart, Windham, NH (US);
Thomas E. Coughlan, Westford, MA (US);
Frederick Earl Knight, Merrimack, NH (US);
James W. Smart, Windham, NH (US);
Thomas E. Coughlan, Westford, MA (US);
Frederick Earl Knight, Merrimack, NH (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention, in its various aspects and embodiments, includes a method for uniquely identifying a device on a SCSI bus. The method first queries the device with a first SCSI command to obtain general identification information. Next, a first set of identification information for the device is extracted from the general identification information. A second SCSI command is then determined from the first set of identification information. Next, the device is queried with the second SCSI command to obtain general device identifiers. A second set of identification information for the device is then extracted from the general device identifiers. Then, an unique identifier is formulated from the first and second sets of information.