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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2007
Richard J. Byrne, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Thomas Klucsarits, Northampton, PA (US);
Nevin C. Heintze, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ambalavanar Arulambalam, Macungie, PA (US);
Michael J. Hunter, Mertztown, PA (US);
Xing Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
Zhi Ping He, Shanghai, CN;
Yun Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Qian Gao Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Eu Gene Goh, Singapore, SG;
Silvester Tjandra, Singapore, SG;
Richard J. Byrne, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Thomas Klucsarits, Northampton, PA (US);
Nevin C. Heintze, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ambalavanar Arulambalam, Macungie, PA (US);
Michael J. Hunter, Mertztown, PA (US);
Xing Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
Zhi Ping He, Shanghai, CN;
Yun Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Qian Gao Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Eu Gene Goh, Singapore, SG;
Silvester Tjandra, Singapore, SG;
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for repairing a defective storage device in a physical storage-device array having a plurality of storage devices. The method comprises the steps of identifying a disk error associated with the defective storage device; effecting an error recovery pause based on the disk error; processing one or more outstanding data storage or retrieval requests; and generating a new data storage request instructing the physical disk device array having the defective storage device to store valid data associated with the data storage or retrieval request corresponding to the disk device error, whereby the defective storage device is repaired.