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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Anil Ravindranath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Krishna Gudipati, Santa Clara, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for handling errors during interfacing with storage devices comprises a communications interface and an error handler. The error handler is for: indicating to provide a first instruction to the first storage device using the first path; determining whether an error or time out message is received; in the event the error handler determines that either message is received: indicating to provide a second instruction to the first storage device using a second path; determining whether a second error or second time out message is received; in the event the error handler determines that either message is received, indicating to provide a likely first storage device error message; and in the event the error handler determines that either message is not received, indicating to provide a likely first path error message and indicating to communicate using the second path.