DE69525120T2 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Verarbeitung von Ein-/Ausgabeanforderungen von mehreren Host-Rechnern - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Verarbeitung von Ein-/Ausgabeanforderungen von mehreren Host-Rechnern

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DE69525120T2
DE69525120T2 DE69525120T DE69525120T DE69525120T2 DE 69525120 T2 DE69525120 T2 DE 69525120T2 DE 69525120 T DE69525120 T DE 69525120T DE 69525120 T DE69525120 T DE 69525120T DE 69525120 T2 DE69525120 T2 DE 69525120T2
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Susumu Koyama
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    • G06F13/00—Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units
    • G06F13/14—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
    • G06F13/20—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to input/output bus
    • G06F13/24—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to input/output bus using interrupt
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    • G06F13/124—Program control for peripheral devices using hardware independent of the central processor, e.g. channel or peripheral processor where hardware is a sequential transfer control unit, e.g. microprocessor, peripheral processor or state-machine
    • G06F13/126—Program control for peripheral devices using hardware independent of the central processor, e.g. channel or peripheral processor where hardware is a sequential transfer control unit, e.g. microprocessor, peripheral processor or state-machine and has means for transferring I/O instructions and statuses between control unit and main processor
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    • G06F13/14—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
    • G06F13/36—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to common bus or bus system
    • G06F13/362—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to common bus or bus system with centralised access control
    • G06F13/3625—Handling requests for interconnection or transfer for access to common bus or bus system with centralised access control using a time dependent access
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    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/06—Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers, e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
    • G06F3/0601—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
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    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/06—Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers, e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
    • G06F3/0601—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
    • G06F3/0668—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems adopting a particular infrastructure
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    • G06F3/0682—Tape device
DE69525120T 1994-09-01 1995-07-31 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Verarbeitung von Ein-/Ausgabeanforderungen von mehreren Host-Rechnern Expired - Fee Related DE69525120T2 (de)

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DE69535635T Expired - Fee Related DE69535635T2 (de) 1994-09-01 1995-07-31 Vefahren und Vorrichtung zur Ein-/Ausgabeanforderungsverarbeitung mit einer Mehrzahl von Kanalbussen

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JPH0877092A (ja) 1996-03-22
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US6029008A (en) 2000-02-22
EP1143343A3 (de) 2004-10-06
DE69535635T2 (de) 2008-07-10
EP1143342A3 (de) 2004-10-06
EP0703535B1 (de) 2002-01-23
DE69535635D1 (de) 2007-12-13
US5781800A (en) 1998-07-14
EP0703535A2 (de) 1996-03-27
US20010034801A1 (en) 2001-10-25
US6366963B2 (en) 2002-04-02
JP3474646B2 (ja) 2003-12-08
EP0703535A3 (de) 1996-10-02
DE69525120D1 (de) 2002-03-14
EP1143342A2 (de) 2001-10-10

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