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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2006
Wayne Charles Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Erika Marianna Dawson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gavin Stuart Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel Kenneth Lyman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Harry Morris Yudenfriend, Tucson, AZ (US);
Wayne Charles Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Erika Marianna Dawson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gavin Stuart Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel Kenneth Lyman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Harry Morris Yudenfriend, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture to process communications between a host and storage drive having a storage media. An Input/Output (I/O) request is received from the host directed to the storage media that requires requested information be sent to the storage drive to use to execute the I/O request against the storage media. A message is sent to the host to cause the host to modify I/O timeout operations in response to determining that the requested information is required.