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Translating device adapter having a common command set for interfacing multiple types of redundant storage devices to a host processor

  • US 6,985,983 B2
  • Filed: 03/01/2001
  • Issued: 01/10/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A translating host bus interface adapter comprising:

  • an interface to a peripheral interconnect bus capable of interfacing the adapter to a computing system;

    a host bus adapter processor and a host bus adapter memory system;

    an interface to a storage area network;

    firmware for execution in the host bus adapter processor, the firmware recorded in the host bus adapter memory system;

    and wherein the host bus adapter is capable of recognizing a first type and a second type of redundant storage controller accessible over the interface to a storage area network, of receiving generic commands over the interface to a peripheral interconnect bus, translating these commands into translated commands suitable for communicating with a redundant storage controller of the first type or the second type of redundant storage controller, and forwarding the translated commands onto the storage area network.

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