Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scheduling commands in a dependent array of disk drives
- Patent Title (中): 在依赖的磁盘驱动器阵列中调度命令
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Application No.: US14065354Application Date: 2013-10-28
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Publication No.: US09128639B1Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Wayne H. Vinson , Edwin S. Olds
- Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
An array of disk drives is disclosed comprising a controller, a plurality of disk drives, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a first access command out of a group of access commands to a first disk drive in the array; transmit a plurality of the access commands out of the group of access commands to other disk drives in the array; and transmit a completion status to the first disk drive, wherein the completion status identifies a status of the plurality of access commands transmitted to the other disk drives.
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