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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Steven D. Sardella, Marlborough, MA (US);
Mickey S. Felton, Sterling, MA (US);
Bernard Warnakulasooriya, Franklin, MA (US);
Steven D. Sardella, Marlborough, MA (US);
Mickey S. Felton, Sterling, MA (US);
Bernard Warnakulasooriya, Franklin, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for setting an enclosure address in a computer system having a plurality of enclosures includes at least one enclosure address control device including input means for changing the enclosure address of an associated enclosure of the plurality of enclosures, a display device for indicating the enclosure address assigned to the associated enclosure, a controller for receiving an enclosure address change input from the input means and a logic device for resetting devices within the associated enclosure. The apparatus further includes a register device for receiving the enclosure address from the controller a predetermined period of time after the controller receives the enclosure address change input from the input means. After the predetermined period of time expires, the controller issues a command to the logic device for resetting the devices within the associated enclosure, to assign the changed enclosure address to the devices.