公开(公告)号：US20130046930A1

公开(公告)日：2013-02-21

申请号：US13606932

申请日：2012-09-07

申请人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

发明人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

IPC分类号： G06F12/08

CPC分类号： G06F11/1076 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0662 ,  G06F3/0685

摘要： A method for optimizing locations of physical data accessed by one or more client applications interacting with a storage system, with the storage system comprising at least two redundancy groups having physical memory spaces and data bands. Each of the data bands corresponds to physical data stored on several of the physical memory spaces. A virtualized logical address space includes client data addresses utilizable by the one or more client applications. A storage controller is configured to map the client data addresses onto the data bands, such that a mapping is obtained, wherein the one or more client applications can access physical data corresponding to the data bands.

摘要翻译： 一种用于优化由与存储系统交互的一个或多个客户端应用访问的物理数据的位置的方法，其中所述存储系统包括具有物理存储器空间和数据带的至少两个冗余组。 每个数据带对应于存储在几个物理存储器空间上的物理数据。 虚拟化逻辑地址空间包括由一个或多个客户端应用程序可使用的客户机数据地址。 存储控制器被配置为将客户端数据地址映射到数据带上，使得获得映射，其中一个或多个客户端应用可以访问对应于数据带的物理数据。

公开(公告)号：US08667219B2

公开(公告)日：2014-03-04

申请号：US13606932

申请日：2012-09-07

申请人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

发明人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/1076 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0662 ,  G06F3/0685

摘要： A method for optimizing locations of physical data accessed by one or more client applications interacting with a storage system, with the storage system comprising at least two redundancy groups having physical memory spaces and data bands. Each of the data bands corresponds to physical data stored on several of the physical memory spaces. A virtualized logical address space includes client data addresses utilizable by the one or more client applications. A storage controller is configured to map the client data addresses onto the data bands, such that a mapping is obtained, wherein the one or more client applications can access physical data corresponding to the data bands.

公开(公告)号：US20130046931A1

公开(公告)日：2013-02-21

申请号：US13209514

申请日：2011-08-15

申请人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

发明人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

IPC分类号： G06F12/08

CPC分类号： G06F11/1076 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0662 ,  G06F3/0685

摘要： A method for optimizing locations of physical data accessed by one or more client applications interacting with a storage system, with the storage system comprising at least two redundancy groups having physical memory spaces and data bands. Each of the data bands corresponds to physical data stored on several of the physical memory spaces. A virtualized logical address space includes client data addresses utilizable by the one or more client applications. A storage controller is configured to map the client data addresses onto the data bands, such that a mapping is obtained, wherein the one or more client applications can access physical data corresponding to the data bands.

公开(公告)号：US06973596B2

公开(公告)日：2005-12-06

申请号：US10219808

申请日：2002-08-15

申请人： Keith R. Halphide ,  Timothy B. Lund ,  Steven P. Norgaard

发明人： Keith R. Halphide ,  Timothy B. Lund ,  Steven P. Norgaard

IPC分类号： G06F11/267 ,  H04L1/24 ,  G06F11/00

CPC分类号： H04L1/243 ,  G06F11/221

摘要： Embodiments are provided for testing termination circuits in SCSI bus controllers. In one embodiment, the termination circuits are tested by sending test data between respective SCSI controllers of the termination circuits for varying enabled/disabled statuses of the termination circuits.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于测试SCSI总线控制器中的终端电路的实施例。 在一个实施例中，通过在终端电路的相应SCSI控制器之间发送测试数据来测试终端电路，以改变终端电路的启用/禁用状态。

公开(公告)号：US08661196B2

公开(公告)日：2014-02-25

申请号：US13209514

申请日：2011-08-15

申请人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

发明人： Evangelos S. Eleftheriou ,  Robert Galbraith ,  Adrian C. Gerhard ,  Robert Haas ,  Xiao-Yu Hu ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Ioannis Koltsidas ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard ,  Roman Pletka

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/1076 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0662 ,  G06F3/0685

摘要： A method for optimizing locations of physical data accessed by one or more client applications interacting with a storage system, with the storage system comprising at least two redundancy groups having physical memory spaces and data bands. Each of the data bands corresponds to physical data stored on several of the physical memory spaces. A virtualized logical address space includes client data addresses utilizable by the one or more client applications. A storage controller is configured to map the client data addresses onto the data bands, such that a mapping is obtained, wherein the one or more client applications can access physical data corresponding to the data bands.

摘要翻译： 一种用于优化由与存储系统交互的一个或多个客户端应用访问的物理数据的位置的方法，其中所述存储系统包括具有物理存储器空间和数据带的至少两个冗余组。 每个数据带对应于存储在几个物理存储器空间上的物理数据。 虚拟化逻辑地址空间包括由一个或多个客户端应用程序可使用的客户机数据地址。 存储控制器被配置为将客户端数据地址映射到数据带上，使得获得映射，其中一个或多个客户端应用可以访问对应于数据带的物理数据。

公开(公告)号：US20120278528A1

公开(公告)日：2012-11-01

申请号：US13096222

申请日：2011-04-28

申请人： Robert E. Galbraith ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard

发明人： Robert E. Galbraith ,  Murali N. Iyer ,  Timothy J. Larson ,  Steven P. Norgaard

IPC分类号： G06F12/02

CPC分类号： G06F12/0866 ,  G06F12/0804 ,  G06F2212/202 ,  Y02D10/13

摘要： A method and controller for implementing enhanced flash backed dynamic random access memory (DRAM) management, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. An input/output adapter (IOA) includes at least one super capacitor, a data store (DS) dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a flash memory, a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), and a flash backed DRAM controller. Responsive to an adapter reset, Data Store DRAM testing including restoring a DRAM image from Flash to DRAM and testing of DRAM is performed. Mirroring of RAID configuration data and RAID parity update footprints between the NVRAM and DRAM is performed. Save of DRAM contents to the flash memory is controllably enabled when super capacitors have been sufficiently recharged and the flash memory erased.

摘要翻译： 一种用于实现增强型闪存备份动态随机存取存储器（DRAM）管理的方法和控制器，以及提供了主题控制器电路所在的设计结构。 输入/输出适配器（IOA）包括至少一个超级电容器，数据存储器（DS）动态随机存取存储器（DRAM），闪速存储器，非易失性随机存取存储器（NVRAM）和闪存的DRAM控制器 。 响应于适配器复位，数据存储DRAM测试包括将DRAM图像从Flash恢复到DRAM和测试DRAM。 执行RAID配置数据的镜像和NVRAM与DRAM之间的RAID奇偶校验更新覆盖。 当超级电容器被充分充电并且闪存被擦除时，将DRAM内容保存到闪速存储器是可控制的。

公开(公告)号：US20090210589A1

公开(公告)日：2009-08-20

申请号：US12032161

申请日：2008-02-15

申请人： John S. Horvath ,  Steven P. Norgaard

发明人： John S. Horvath ,  Steven P. Norgaard

IPC分类号： G06F13/12

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411

摘要： A method, system, and computer program product for dynamically updating vital product data (VPD) based on the presence of an installed feature card supported by an input/output (I/O) adapter in a data processing device. A VPD utility initiates the boot up process of the I/O adapter with the aid of the common boot code in the Boot/VPD segment of a flash module. The hardware configuration registers are loaded with default values. Additionally, the VPD from the (flash) Boot/VPD segment is loaded. When the feature card is present, the VPD utility retrieves configuration information for the feature card and loads the hardware configuration registers with values relevant to the feature card. The VPD utility retrieves the feature card VPD and loads available VPD updates into the (flash) alternate Open Boot segment. The flash firmware image uses the VPD to manage the adapter.

摘要翻译： 一种用于基于在数据处理设备中由输入/输出（I / O）适配器支持的安装的特征卡的存在来动态地更新重要产品数据（VPD）的方法，系统和计算机程序产品。 VPD实用程序借助于闪存模块的Boot / VPD段中的通用启动代码启动I / O适配器的启动过程。 硬件配置寄存器加载默认值。 另外，来自（闪存）Boot / VPD段的VPD被加载。 当功能卡存在时，VPD实用程序检索功能卡的配置信息，并使用与功能卡相关的值加载硬件配置寄存器。 VPD实用程序检索功能卡VPD，并将可用的VPD更新加载到（闪存）备用打开引导段。 闪存固件映像使用VPD管理适配器。