公开(公告)号：US20070121621A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-31

申请号：US11369489

申请日：2006-03-07

申请人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

发明人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

IPC分类号： H04L12/56 ,  H04J3/16

CPC分类号： G06F13/385

摘要： Integrated active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a data processing system to communicate a fibre channel frame through a network and a conversion module in a storage device coupled to the network to translate between the fibre channel frame and one or more of a SATA frame and a SAS frame. The conversion module may further include an active-active module to provide multiple paths from the data processing system to the storage device, a context associated with one or more outstanding commands, and a mapping module to translate between a logical block address and a logical block address count for one or more of a 520 block, a 524 block, and a 528 block SCSI command and a corresponding logical block address and a corresponding logical block address count for a 512 block SATA command.

摘要翻译： 披露了SAS和SATA中的集成主动 - 主动光纤通道功能。 在一个实施例中，系统包括数据处理系统，用于通过网络传送光纤信道帧，以及耦合到网络的存储设备中的转换模块，以在光纤通道帧与SATA帧和SAS中的一个或多个之间进行转换 帧。 转换模块还可以包括主动 - 主动模块，用于提供从数据处理系统到存储设备的多个路径，与一个或多个未决命令相关联的上下文，以及映射模块，用于在逻辑块地址和逻辑块之间进行转换 520块，524块和528块SCSI命令中的一个或多个的地址计数以及512块SATA命令的对应逻辑块地址和相应的逻辑块地址计数。

公开(公告)号：US20070121633A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-31

申请号：US11291116

申请日：2005-11-30

申请人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

发明人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

IPC分类号： H04L12/56

CPC分类号： G06F13/385

摘要： Active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA apparatus and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device includes a dongle having a conversion module to translate between a fibre channel frame and a SATA frame and/or a SAS frame, and a data processing system to communicate through a fibre channel network with the storage device through two or more ports on the conversion module. An active-active module of the conversion module may provide multiple paths from the data processing system to the storage device. The conversion module may process the fibre channel frame and other fibre channel frames on a frame by frame basis. The dongle may be external to the storage device.

摘要翻译： 公开了SAS和SATA设备中的主动 - 有源光纤通道能力和方法。 在一个实施例中，存储设备包括具有转换模块以在光纤通道帧和SATA帧和/或SAS帧之间转换的加密狗，以及数据处理系统，通过光纤通道网络与存储设备通过两个 或更多端口。 转换模块的主动模块可以提供从数据处理系统到存储装置的多条路径。 转换模块可以逐帧处理光纤信道帧和其他光纤信道帧。 加密狗可能在存储设备的外部。

公开(公告)号：US20070121668A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-31

申请号：US11370128

申请日：2006-03-07

申请人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

发明人： Michael Moretti ,  Kelvin Kao

IPC分类号： H04J3/22

CPC分类号： G06F13/385 ,  H04L67/1097 ,  H04L69/08

摘要： Firmware architecture of active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor having stored therein a conversion firmware to cause the processor to translate between a fibre channel frame and a SATA frame or a SAS frame. In another example embodiment, and article of manufacture is based on a machine readable medium having a machine readable program which may include functions for analyzing and incoming command of an initiator and performing a conversion of the incoming command to a format of an output line, determining whether the incoming command is compatible with the output line, processing the incoming command internally if it is incompatible with the output line by applying and algorithm, and communicating the incoming command to a destination device if it is compatible with the output line.

摘要翻译： 披露了SAS和SATA中主动 - 主动光纤通道功能的固件架构。 在一个实施例中，系统包括处理器和连接到处理器的存储器，其中存储有转换固件以使处理器在光纤通道帧与SATA帧或SAS帧之间转换。 在另一个示例性实施例中，制造品基于具有机器可读程序的机器可读介质，该机器可读介质可以包括用于分析和进入发起者的命令的功能，并且将输入命令转换为输出行的格式，确定 输入命令是否与输出线路兼容，如果与输出线路不兼容，则通过应用和算法来处理输入命令，并将输入命令传送到目标设备（如果与输出线路兼容）。

公开(公告)号：USD708593S1

公开(公告)日：2014-07-08

申请号：US29452664

申请日：2013-04-19

申请人： Kyle Lynn ,  Tuan Tran ,  Christopher J. Page ,  Allan Lee Cameron ,  Andrew J. Boyce ,  Philip Walker ,  Kelvin Kao ,  Ken Kadziauskas ,  Regan A. Pierce ,  Fred Lee ,  Teresita Smith ,  Tapan Patel

设计人： Kyle Lynn ,  Tuan Tran ,  Christopher J. Page ,  Allan Lee Cameron ,  Andrew J. Boyce ,  Philip Walker ,  Kelvin Kao ,  Ken Kadziauskas ,  Regan A. Pierce ,  Fred Lee ,  Teresita Smith ,  Tapan Patel

公开(公告)号：US07136972B2

公开(公告)日：2006-11-14

申请号：US10884295

申请日：2004-07-02

申请人： Kelvin Kao ,  Teddy Gordon Greer

发明人： Kelvin Kao ,  Teddy Gordon Greer

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0671

摘要： An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for distributed management in a storage system. The invention distributes increasingly complex storage management tasks to a message management module, a drive management module, a cache management module, and an interface management module to control operations of one or more storage devices, without depending on the availability of a “super” microprocessor. Furthermore, the invention provides for efficient inter-module communication through point-to-point passing of asynchronous queued messages and use of a centralized input/output context memory, such that all said modules may work in parallel independently and cooperatively, optimizing storage input/output performance at a reduced cost.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于存储系统中的分布式管理的装置，系统和方法。 本发明将日益复杂的存储管理任务分配到消息管理模块，驱动器管理模块，高速缓存管理模块和接口管理模块，以控制一个或多个存储设备的操作，而不依赖于“超级”微处理器 。 此外，本发明通过异步排队消息的点对点传递和集中式输入/输出上下文存储器的使用来提供有效的模块间通信，使得所有所述模块可以独立且协同地并行工作，优化存储输入/ 输出性能降低。

公开(公告)号：US20060031605A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-09

申请号：US10884295

申请日：2004-07-02

申请人： Kelvin Kao ,  Teddy Greer

发明人： Kelvin Kao ,  Teddy Greer

IPC分类号： G06F13/28 ,  G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0658 ,  G06F3/0671

摘要： An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for distributed management in a storage system. The invention distributes increasingly complex storage management tasks to a message management module, a drive management module, a cache management module, and an interface management module to control operations of one or more storage devices, without depending on the availability of a “super” microprocessor. Furthermore, the invention provides for efficient inter-module communication through point-to-point passing of asynchronous queued messages and use of a centralized input/output context memory, such that all said modules may work in parallel independently and cooperatively, optimizing storage input/output performance at a reduced cost.

公开(公告)号：US06721854B1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-13

申请号：US09698344

申请日：2000-10-27

申请人： Hideo Asano ,  Atsushi Kanamaru ,  Kelvin Kao ,  Akira Kibashi ,  Koichi Kushida ,  Takahiro Saito ,  Chi-Chen Wu ,  Daniel James Colegrove

发明人： Hideo Asano ,  Atsushi Kanamaru ,  Kelvin Kao ,  Akira Kibashi ,  Koichi Kushida ,  Takahiro Saito ,  Chi-Chen Wu ,  Daniel James Colegrove

IPC分类号： G06F1200

CPC分类号： G06F13/387 ,  G06F12/0866

摘要： An external controller performs a thorough analysis and prediction on true requests from an application to issue a look-ahead request to an HDD or other auxiliary storage. An HDC card is connected to an HDD device which stores data and has a cache memory. The HDC card, which controls the HDD device, includes an access request tracer for tracing a true access request made by an application program executed by a host directly from the application program, a speculation request determination section for determining a speculation request to be expected later based on the traced true access request, and an HDC for issuing the determined speculation request to the HDD device.

摘要翻译： 外部控制器对来自应用程序的真实请求进行彻底的分析和预测，以向HDD或其他辅助存储器发出预先请求。 HDC卡连接到存储数据并具有高速缓冲存储器的HDD设备。 控制HDD设备的HDC卡包括用于跟踪由应用程序直接由主机执行的应用程序所做的真实访问请求的访问请求跟踪器，用于确定稍后期望的推测请求的推测请求确定部分 基于跟踪的真实访问请求，以及用于将确定的推测请求发布到HDD设备的HDC。