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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Applicants:
Go Uehara, Odawara, JP;
Yoshifumi Zimoto, Odawara, JP;
Kenji Muraoka, Odawara, JP;
Masaaki Kobayashi, Odawara, JP;
Inventors:
Go Uehara, Odawara, JP;
Yoshifumi Zimoto, Odawara, JP;
Kenji Muraoka, Odawara, JP;
Masaaki Kobayashi, Odawara, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The respective physical storage devices of a storage system are set to a power-saving state in which these respective physical storage devices are able to respond to a prescribed type of command. Then, a first prescribed type of command is sent to the respective physical storage devices that are in the power-saving state, and the results of this first prescribed type of command are checked.