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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2013
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wayne H. Vinson, Longmont, CO (US);
Edwin S. Olds, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01);
Abstract
An array of disk drives is disclosed comprising a controller, a plurality of disk drives, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a first access command out of a group of access commands to a first disk drive in the array; transmit a plurality of the access commands out of the group of access commands to other disk drives in the array; and transmit a completion status to the first disk drive, wherein the completion status identifies a status of the plurality of access commands transmitted to the other disk drives.