公开(公告)号：US20060294331A1

公开(公告)日：2006-12-28

申请号：US11165048

申请日：2005-06-23

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F12/14 ,  G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/1466

摘要： A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for prohibiting unauthorized access of data that is stored on storage drives. Multiple logical partitions are generated. A different unique randomizer seed is associated with each one of the logical partitions. In response to one of the logical partitions needing to access a storage drive, the logical partition transmits a seed to the storage drive. The transmitted seed is associated with the one of the logical partitions. A transmitting one of the logical partitions is unable to transmit a seed that is other than a seed that is associated with the transmitting one of the logical partitions. The storage drive utilizes the transmitted seed to randomize and de-randomize data for the one of the logical partitions. Data randomized for one of the logical partitions cannot be de-randomized for a different one of the logical partitions.

摘要翻译： 在数据处理系统中公开了一种方法，装置和计算机程序产品，用于禁止存储在存储驱动器上的数据的未经授权的访问。 生成多个逻辑分区。 不同的唯一随机化器种子与每个逻辑分区相关联。 响应于需要访问存储驱动器的逻辑分区之一，逻辑分区将种子发送到存储驱动器。 发送的种子与逻辑分区之一相关联。 逻辑分区中的一个发送的一个逻辑分区不能发送与发送的逻辑分区相关联的种子以外的种子。 存储驱动器利用所发送的种子来为逻辑分区之一随机化和去随机化数据。 对于逻辑分区之一而随机化的数据不能对于不同的逻辑分区进行去随机化。

公开(公告)号：US20060075288A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-06

申请号：US10948415

申请日：2004-09-23

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/0775 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/2082

摘要： Method, system and computer program product for reporting and recovering from uncorrectable data errors in a data processing system using the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) or the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol. The invention utilizes the data scrubbing functionality of SCSI hard drives to provide a higher level of data integrity in an operating system implemented RAID environment. If an uncorrectable data error is found on a hard drive during a background data scrubbing operation, information concerning the data error is logged in a S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) error data structure. When the host operating system identifies the uncorrectable data error during normal operation, a Host Array Manager issues a Write Command to write the data from a redundant drive after the defective Logical Block Address (LBA) has been reassigned.

摘要翻译： 方法，系统和计算机程序产品，用于使用高级技术附件（ATA）或串行ATA（SATA）协议来报告和恢复数据处理系统中的不可纠正的数据错误。 本发明利用SCSI硬盘驱动器的数据擦除功能在操作系统实现的RAID环境中提供更高级别的数据完整性。 如果在后台数据擦除操作期间在硬盘驱动器上发现无法纠正的数据错误，则在S.M.A.R.T.中记录有关数据错误的信息。 （自我监测分析和报告技术）错误数据结构。 当主机操作系统在正常操作期间识别出不可校正的数据错误时，主阵列管理器发出写命令，以在重新分配故障逻辑块地址（LBA）之后从冗余驱动器写入数据。

公开(公告)号：US20050216657A1

公开(公告)日：2005-09-29

申请号：US10809589

申请日：2004-03-25

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F12/16

CPC分类号： G06F11/2084 ,  G06F11/1435

摘要： A method and system are disclosed for recovering lost data with redundancy in an individual hard drive. A mirroring-type process is used in a single hard drive to maintain a backup copy of all data stored on that hard drive. The hard drive maintains two copies of the stored data on different storage media segments or partitions defined by separate read/write heads. In the event that a hard drive media defect or error occurs with respect to any of the data stored on a segment defined by one head, that data can be restored from the segment defined by the other head(s).

摘要翻译： 公开了用于在单个硬盘驱动器中恢复冗余的丢失数据的方法和系统。 在单个硬盘驱动器中使用镜像类型进程来维护存储在该硬盘驱动器上的所有数据的备份副本。 硬盘驱动器将存储的数据的两个副本保存在由单独的读/写头定义的不同存储介质段或分区上。 在存储在由一个头定义的段上的任何数据发生硬盘驱动器介质缺陷或错误的情况下，该数据可以从由另一个头定义的段恢复。

公开(公告)号：US20070263784A1

公开(公告)日：2007-11-15

申请号：US11279126

申请日：2006-04-10

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： H04M1/64

CPC分类号： H04M1/2535 ,  H04M1/642 ,  H04M1/72566 ,  H04M3/53391 ,  H04M7/0036 ,  H04M2203/2072

摘要： A telephone answering system associated with a telephone receiving terminal, either wired or mobile wireless, including an implementation for predetermining a set of different types of incoming telephone calls; the type of calls may be based on who the caller is and/or based upon the identifier of the incoming call. This is combined with a calendar listing time of day segments of the schedule of the recipient of an incoming telephone call. Storage is provided for a set of different vocal responses, for each time segment, to each of said set of different types of telephone calls. Then, responsive to an incoming call, there is provided the appropriate stored vocal for the type of said incoming call based upon the type or nature of the caller and the recipient's calendar.

摘要翻译： 与有线或无线电话的电话接收终端相关联的电话应答系统，包括用于预先确定一组不同类型的呼入电话的实现; 呼叫的类型可以基于呼叫者和/或基于来话呼叫的标识符。 这与列出接收电话呼叫的接收者的时间表的日期列表的日历组合。 针对每个时间段，针对所述一组不同类型的电话呼叫中的每一个，为一组不同的声音响应提供存储。 然后，响应于来电，根据呼叫者的类型或性质以及接收者的日历，为所述来电的类型提供适当的存储声音。

公开(公告)号：US20060253650A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-09

申请号：US11121232

申请日：2005-05-03

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/0866 ,  G06F3/0601 ,  G06F2003/0692 ,  G06F2212/224

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided for allocating a portion of the OD zone of a hard drive disk to be a non-volatile (NV) caching space, where all writes to the disk are carried out. These write operations can be performed much faster than with conventional techniques, and storage costs may be significantly reduced. The disk drive controller manages the cache, and the host system sees improved throughput, especially for write intensive operations. In one embodiment a method is provided for writing specified data to a disk drive in a computer configuration, the disk drive having a magnetic disk and a volatile cache memory. A specified portion of the OD zone of the disk is reserved for an NV cache space, and the specified data is initially stored in the volatile memory, in response to a write command. The method further includes writing the specified data from the volatile memory to the NV cache space at the disk OD, and subsequently writing the specified data from the NV cache space to a selected longer-term storage location on the disk.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种方法和装置，用于将硬盘驱动器盘的OD区域的一部分分配为非易失性（NV）高速缓存空间，其中执行对盘的所有写入。 这些写入操作可以比常规技术更快地执行，并且可以显着地降低存储成本。 磁盘驱动器控制器管理缓存，并且主机系统看到改进的吞吐量，特别是对于写入密集型操作。 在一个实施例中，提供了一种用于将指定数据写入计算机配置中的磁盘驱动器的方法，该磁盘驱动器具有磁盘和易失性高速缓冲存储器。 响应于写入命令，磁盘的OD区域的指定部分被保留用于NV高速缓存空间，并且指定的数据最初存储在易失性存储器中。 该方法还包括将指定的数据从易失性存储器写入到磁盘OD的NV高速缓存空间，并且随后将指定的数据从NV高速缓存空间写入到磁盘上选定的长期存储位置。

公开(公告)号：US20060075289A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-06

申请号：US10948442

申请日：2004-09-23

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/0775 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/1092 ,  G06F2211/1088

摘要： A system, method, and computer program product for recovering from data errors. In a SCSI hard drive system, when a unrecoverable data error condition is encountered, the logical block address is reassigned using information provided by the data scrubbing functionality of the SCSI hard drive.

摘要翻译： 用于从数据错误中恢复的系统，方法和计算机程序产品。 在SCSI硬盘驱动器系统中，当遇到不可恢复的数据错误条件时，使用SCSI硬盘驱动器的数据擦除功能提供的信息重新分配逻辑块地址。

公开(公告)号：US20080104446A1

公开(公告)日：2008-05-01

申请号：US11968391

申请日：2008-01-02

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F11/08

CPC分类号： G06F11/0775 ,  G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/2082

摘要： Method, system and computer program product for reporting and recovering from uncorrectable data errors in a data processing system using the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) or the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol. The invention utilizes the data scrubbing functionality of SCSI hard drives to provide a higher level of data integrity in an operating system implemented RAID environment. If an uncorrectable data error is found on a hard drive during a background data scrubbing operation, information concerning the data error is logged in a S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) error data structure. When the host operating system identifies the uncorrectable data error during normal operation, a Host Array Manager issues a Write Command to write the data from a redundant drive after the defective Logical Block Address (LBA) has been reassigned.

摘要翻译： 方法，系统和计算机程序产品，用于使用高级技术附件（ATA）或串行ATA（SATA）协议来报告和恢复数据处理系统中的不可纠正的数据错误。 本发明利用SCSI硬盘驱动器的数据擦除功能在操作系统实现的RAID环境中提供更高级别的数据完整性。 如果在后台数据擦除操作期间在硬盘驱动器上发现无法纠正的数据错误，则在S.M.A.R.T.中记录有关数据错误的信息。 （自我监测分析和报告技术）错误数据结构。 当主机操作系统在正常操作期间识别出不可校正的数据错误时，主阵列管理器发出写命令，以在重新分配故障逻辑块地址（LBA）之后从冗余驱动器写入数据。

公开(公告)号：US20060156060A1

公开(公告)日：2006-07-13

申请号：US11034265

申请日：2005-01-12

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Asghar Tavasoli ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/3485 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0649 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  G06F11/1096

摘要： A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for controlling accesses of drives in a storage subsystem. A first array of a first type of drive is provided. The first type of drive is a server class of drive. A second array of a second type of drive is provided. The second type of drive is a PC class drive. The first and second arrays are bound together to form a single array of drives. The single array of drives is presented to a host that is coupled to the storage subsystem as a single array. The host is unaware that the single array includes two different types of drives. Data is stored in the second array of drives. Data is migrated from the second array of drives to the first array of drives when an access rate of the second array of drives exceeds a threshold access rate for the second type of drive. The data that is chosen to be migrated from the second array to the first array is the data in the second array of drives that is accessed more frequently. Thus, frequently used data is accessed from the array of the first type of drives and less frequently used data is accessed from the array of the second type of drives.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于控制存储子系统中的驱动器的访问的方法，装置和计算机程序产品。 提供第一类驱动器的第一阵列。 驱动器的第一种类型是驱动器的服务器类。 提供第二类驱动器的第二阵列。 第二种驱动器是PC类驱动器。 第一和第二阵列绑定在一起以形成单个驱动器阵列。 将单个驱动器阵列呈现给作为单个阵列耦合到存储子系统的主机。 主机不知道单个阵列包含两种不同类型的驱动器。 数据存储在第二个驱动器阵列中。 当第二驱动器阵列的访问速率超过第二类驱动器的阈值访问速率时，数据从第二驱动器阵列迁移到第一驱动器阵列。 选择要从第二个阵列迁移到第一个阵列的数据是更频繁访问的第二个驱动器阵列中的数据。 因此，从第一类型的驱动器的阵列访问经常使用的数据，并且从第二类型的驱动器的阵列访问较少使用的数据。

公开(公告)号：US20060136662A1

公开(公告)日：2006-06-22

申请号：US11016216

申请日：2004-12-17

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F13/385 ,  G06F3/0617 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0676

摘要： A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for permitting access to a data storage device while the device is being formatted. A format command is received within the device from the host. A command complete response is then transmitted to the host before the device has completed being formatted. The host waits for the command complete response before the host transmits any read or write command to the device. Read and write commands that are transmitted to the device from the host are executed while the device is still being formatted.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种方法，装置和计算机程序产品，用于在设备被格式化时允许访问数据存储设备。 从主机接收设备中的格式命令。 然后在设备完成格式化之前，将命令完整响应发送到主机。 在主机向设备发送任何读或写命令之前，主机等待命令完成响应。 在设备仍被格式化时，将从主机读取和写入从设备发送的命令。

公开(公告)号：US20060087760A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-27

申请号：US10970462

申请日：2004-10-21

申请人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

发明人： Thomas Forrer ,  Jason Moore ,  Abel Zuzuarregui

IPC分类号： G11B15/04 ,  G11B19/02

CPC分类号： G11B23/284

摘要： A unique identification number is stored in the electronic card that is attached to a disk drive, as well as in a reserved location on the disk itself. This ID number is initialized at head-disk assembly and a match between the two ID numbers is necessary for access to the data on the disk, although not for repairs to the mechanisms themselves. When a disk containing sensitive data is to be removed from a customer site, a technician briefly removes the disk and applies a jumper to specific contacts on the drive, then reinserts the drive and powers it up. This causes the ID on the electronic card to be erased, rendering the data on the drive unreadable. When the drive reaches a repair facility, the erased ID number ensures that the disk will be reformatted before being reused.

摘要翻译： 唯一的识别号码存储在附加到磁盘驱动器的电子卡以及磁盘本身的保留位置中。 这个ID号码是在磁头盘组合中进行初始化的，两个ID号码之间的匹配对于访问磁盘上的数据是必要的，尽管不是修复机制本身。 当要从客户站点删除包含敏感数据的磁盘时，技术人员会短暂删除磁盘，并将跳线应用于驱动器上的特定联系人，然后重新插入驱动器并将其加电。 这会导致电子卡上的ID被擦除，从而使驱动器上的数据无法读取。 当驱动器到达维修设备时，擦除的ID号确保在重新使用磁盘之前重新格式化磁盘。