CA2027992A1 - Systeme pour operations programmees d'un appareil d'emmagasinage a acces direct - Google Patents

Systeme pour operations programmees d'un appareil d'emmagasinage a acces direct

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CA2027992A1
CA2027992A1 CA2027992A CA2027992A CA2027992A1 CA 2027992 A1 CA2027992 A1 CA 2027992A1 CA 2027992 A CA2027992 A CA 2027992A CA 2027992 A CA2027992 A CA 2027992A CA 2027992 A1 CA2027992 A1 CA 2027992A1
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spindles
dasd
storage device
direct access
access storage
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CA2027992C (fr
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Thomas William Glaser
Richard Greenberg
Hjalmar Holmboe Ottesen
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International Business Machines Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/16—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware
    • G06F11/20—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
    • G06F11/2053—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements where persistent mass storage functionality or persistent mass storage control functionality is redundant
    • G06F11/2056—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements where persistent mass storage functionality or persistent mass storage control functionality is redundant by mirroring
    • G06F11/2069—Management of state, configuration or failover
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B19/00—Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of operating function ; Driving both disc and head
    • G11B19/02—Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
    • G11B19/12—Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B19/00—Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of operating function ; Driving both disc and head
    • G11B19/20—Driving; Starting; Stopping; Control thereof
    • G11B19/28—Speed controlling, regulating, or indicating
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
    • G11B27/002—Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
    • G11B27/10—Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C29/00—Checking stores for correct operation ; Subsequent repair; Testing stores during standby or offline operation
    • G11C29/70—Masking faults in memories by using spares or by reconfiguring
    • G11C29/74—Masking faults in memories by using spares or by reconfiguring using duplex memories, i.e. using dual copies
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B2220/00—Record carriers by type
    • G11B2220/20—Disc-shaped record carriers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B2220/00—Record carriers by type
    • G11B2220/40—Combinations of multiple record carriers
    • G11B2220/41—Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title
    • G11B2220/415—Redundant array of inexpensive disks [RAID] systems
CA002027992A 1989-11-02 1990-10-18 Systeme pour operations programmees d'un appareil d'emmagasinage a acces direct Expired - Fee Related CA2027992C (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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US07/430,992 US5237466A (en) 1989-11-02 1989-11-02 Method and apparatus for programmably controlling spindle synchronization and phase among disk drives in a storage subsystem
US430,992 1989-11-02

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CA2027992A1 true CA2027992A1 (fr) 1991-05-03
CA2027992C CA2027992C (fr) 1994-11-29

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US (1) US5237466A (fr)
EP (1) EP0426483B1 (fr)
JP (1) JP2739727B2 (fr)
CA (1) CA2027992C (fr)
DE (1) DE69029833T2 (fr)

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DE69029833D1 (de) 1997-03-13
CA2027992C (fr) 1994-11-29
US5237466A (en) 1993-08-17
EP0426483A3 (en) 1992-12-23
EP0426483A2 (fr) 1991-05-08
EP0426483B1 (fr) 1997-01-29
JP2739727B2 (ja) 1998-04-15
DE69029833T2 (de) 1997-07-17
JPH03154269A (ja) 1991-07-02

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