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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2003
Applicants:
Gunnar Tapper, Woodland Park, CO (US);
Gary S. Smith, Auburn, CA (US);
Marty Guericke, Campbell, CA (US);
Vijay M. Bellam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gunnar Tapper, Woodland Park, CO (US);
Gary S. Smith, Auburn, CA (US);
Marty Guericke, Campbell, CA (US);
Vijay M. Bellam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This disclosure describes a technique including operating a redundant disk drive device, wherein the redundant disk drive device includes a primary disk drive and at least one mirror disk drive. At least one of the disk drives is reconfigured within the redundant disk drive system in such a manner that during the reconfiguring, the disk drive is maintained on-line.