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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Atsushi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Fukunaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Fukunaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To prevent a command from being unsmoothly issued when a communications channel (LUN) from a conventional initiator to a target enters communications disabled state for any reason there is provided, a data processing method for use between two nodes which are connected to a serial bus and perform communications by a plurality of logical communications units, in which, in the plurality of logical communications units, a first logical communications unit is used in data communications from an initiator to a target, a second logical communications unit is used in data communications from a target to an initiator, and a control command issued from the initiator to the target can be issued to and received by both logical communications units.