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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2011
Applicants:
Kevin Kidney, Lafayette, CO (US);
Kenneth Day, Wichita, KS (US);
Inventors:
Kevin Kidney, Lafayette, CO (US);
Kenneth Day, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for computing and storing parity information in a RAID system includes dividing each segment in a stripe into a data block and a parity block, and storing in each parity block, parity information for a limited number of other data blocks in the stripe. A method for rebuilding data in a RAID system includes rebuilding the data from parity information and storing the rebuilt data on reserve portions of the remaining disks in the system.