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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2011
Applicant:
Hiroki Tashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroki Tashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A RAID device has a plurality of HDDs for a RAID configuration and controls the RAID configuration. The RAID device has a host that performs various data processes on the HDDs and a control unit that controls communication with the HDDs. With this configuration, if an initialization process for assigning physical addresses unique to the HDDs is performed, the RAID device receives initialization frames from the HDDs. Then, the RAID device detects abnormality of the HDDs in accordance with information contained in the received initialization frames.