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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2005
Bruce Gregory Warren, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Curtis Edward Nottberg, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Carl Joseph Mies, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Kevin Dale Bowman, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Noumaan Ahmed Shah, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Gary Lynn Franco, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Bruce Gregory Warren, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Curtis Edward Nottberg, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Carl Joseph Mies, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Kevin Dale Bowman, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Noumaan Ahmed Shah, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Gary Lynn Franco, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.