Patent ID: 6564294
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A disk controller comprising:a plurality of interfaces including host computer interfaces which interface to host computers or disk device interfaces which interface to disk devices, wherein said interfaces respectively have a plurality of processors and a memory; a shared memory unit connected to said interfaces by access paths in a one-to-one ratio by respective access paths, said shared memory unit having a shared memory in which control information is stored, wherein each of the processors of each of said interfaces transmits broadcast data to said shared memory unit; and a plurality of control signal lines, each of said control signal lines connecting respective interfaces and said shared memory unit, and wherein said shared memory unit transmits interruption signals to said interfaces by way of respective control signal lines when one of the processors writes broadcast data into said shared memory by way of respective access paths, and wherein upon receiving an interruption signal, one of the processors of each of said interfaces reads the broadcast data written in said shared memory unit and writes the read-out broadcast data in said memory within said interface.