Patent ID: 9645872
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for handling errors during interfacing with storage devices, comprising: a communications interface for communicating with a first storage device using a first path or a second path; and an error handler for: indicating to provide a first instruction to the first storage device using the first path; determining whether an error message or a short time out message is received in response the first instruction; in the event the error handler determines that the first error message or the first short time out message is received: indicating to provide a second instruction to the first storage device using the second path; determining whether a second error message or a second short time out message is received in response to the second instruction; in the event the error handler determines that the second error message or the second short time out message is received, indicating to provide a likely first storage device error message; and in the event the error handler determines that the second error message or the second short time out message is not received, indicating to provide a likely first path error message and indicating to communicate using the second path.