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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Richard M. Stern, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventor:
Richard M. Stern, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided that includes performing first and second exclusive activation checks separately on first and second storage units, respectively, with a node using a software RAID function and activating a RAID disk with the first storage unit and the second storage unit using the software RAID function in response to the first and the second exclusive activation checks indicating that the first and the second storage units, respectively, can be activated as the RAID disk by the node.