Anomaly notification control in disk array
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1. A disk array system comprising:
- a controller, adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and controlling receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer and controlling reading/writing data;
a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a first RAID group and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface;
a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a second RAID group and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; and
at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and comprising an FC interface,wherein, if said controller performs sparing of at least one of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group to said third disk drive as a spare disk drive, said controller relates said third disk drive to said first RAID group even though an interface type of said first disk drives is different from an interface type of said third disk drive so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer.
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Abstract
In a storage device incorporating a plurality of kinds of disk drives with different interfaces, the controller performs sparing on a disk drive, whose errors that occur during accesses exceed a predetermined number, by swapping it with a spare disk drive that is prepared beforehand.
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1. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and controlling receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer and controlling reading/writing data; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a first RAID group and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a second RAID group and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; and at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and comprising an FC interface, wherein, if said controller performs sparing of at least one of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group to said third disk drive as a spare disk drive, said controller relates said third disk drive to said first RAID group even though an interface type of said first disk drives is different from an interface type of said third disk drive so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being adapted to be used to form a first RAID group and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being adapted to be used to form a second RAID group and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and comprising an FC interface; and at least one fourth disk drive, coupled to said controller, and comprising an FC interface, wherein said controller is able to perform storing of data, corresponding to data stored in at least one of said first disk drives, in said third disk drive although it is desired that a RAID group is made up of a plurality of disk drives each comprising the same kind of interface, said third disk drive being a first spare disk drive for said at least one of said first disk drives so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used as a same RAID group, and wherein said controller is able to perform storing of data, corresponding to data stored in at least one of said second disk drives, in said fourth disk drive, said fourth disk drive being a second spare disk drive for at least one of said second disk drives so that said fourth disk drive and said second disk drives other than said at least one of said second disk drives are used as a same RAID group. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and controlling receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a first RAID group and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller, and being related to a second RAID group and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and being used as a spare disk drive and comprising a SATA interface, wherein, if a disk drive having an FC interface is unavailable, said controller performs sparing of at least one of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group and is able to control use of said third disk drive as said spare disk drive for said at least one of said first disk drives even though an interface type of said first disk drives is different from an interface type of said third disk drive so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, being adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and controlling receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a RAID group, and storing data received from said host computer based on controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and at least one second disk drive, coupled to said controller, and being used as a spare disk drive and comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; wherein said controller performs sparing of at least one of said first disk drives and is able to control use of said second disk drive as said spare disk drive for said at least one of said first disk drives.
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40. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller being adapted to be coupled to a host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a first RAID group, and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a second RAID group, and storing data by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and one or more third disk drives, coupled to said controller, and each comprising an FC interface, wherein said third disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said second disk drives even though an interface type of said third disk drives is different from an interface type of said second disk drives so that said third disk drive and said second disk drives other than said one or more of said second disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, being adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and controlling receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and being related to a RAID group, and storing data received from said host computer by controlling performed by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and at least one second disk drive, coupled to said controller, and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; wherein said controller performs sparing of at least one of said first disk drives related to said RAID group to said second disk drive so that said second disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer.
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55. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller being adapted to be coupled to a plurality of host computers; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a first RAID group, and storing data received from a first host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a second RAID group, and storing data received from a second host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and one or more third disk drives, coupled to said controller, and each comprising an FC interface, wherein said third disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said one or more of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said first host computer, and wherein said third disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said second disk drives so that said third disk drive and said second disk drives other than said one or more of said second disk drives are used to store at least data received from said second host computer.
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56. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller being adapted to be coupled to a host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a first RAID group, and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a second RAID group, and storing data in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and each comprising an FC interface, wherein said controller is able to make said third disk drive to be a spare disk drive for at least one of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store data, and wherein said controller is able to make said third disk drive to be a spare disk drive for at least one of said second disk drives related to said second RAID group so that said third disk drive and said second disk drives other than said at least one of said second disk drives are used to store data.
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57. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, being adapted to be coupled to a plurality of host computers, and receiving/transferring data from/to said host computers; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a first RAID group, and storing data received from a first host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a second RAID group, and storing data received from a second host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and one or more third disk drives, coupled to said controller, and each comprising a SATA interface, wherein said third disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said one or more of said first disk drives are used to store data received from said first host computer, and wherein said third disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said second disk drives related to said second RAID group so that said third disk drive and said second disk drives other than said one or more of said second disk drives are used to store at least data received from said second host computer.
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58. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, being adapted to be coupled to a plurality of host computers, and receiving/transferring data from/to said host computers; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a first RAID group, and storing data received from a first host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface; a plurality of second disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a second RAID group, and storing data received from a second host computer of said host computers in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and at least one third disk drive, coupled to said controller, and each comprising a SATA interface, wherein said controller is able to make said third disk drive to be spare disk drive for at least one of said first disk drives related to said first RAID group so that said third disk drive and said first disk drives other than said at least one of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said first host computer, and wherein said controller is able to make said third disk drive to be spare disk drive for at least one of said second disk drives related to said second RAID group so that said third disk drive and said second disk drives other than said at least one of said second disk drives are used to store at least data received from said second host computer.
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59. A disk array system comprising:
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a controller, being adapted to be coupled to a host computer, and receiving/transferring data from/to said host computer; a plurality of first disk drives, coupled to said controller and related to a RAID group, and storing data received from said host computer in accordance with controlling by said controller and each comprising a Serial ATA (SATA) interface; and one or more second disk drives, coupled to said controller, and each comprising a Fibre Channel (FC) interface, wherein said second disk drives can be spare disk drives for one or more of said first disk drives related to said RAID group, although it is desired that a RAID group is made up of a plurality of disk drives each comprising the same kind of interface, so that said second disk drives and said first disk drives other than said one or more of said first disk drives are used to store at least data received from said host computer.
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