Patent ID: 6098119
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for automatically configuring disk drives connected to a controller, the method comprising the steps of:scanning, by the controller, the disk drives connected to the controller;finding, by the controller, one or more unconfigured disk drives from among the connected disk drives;preparing, by the controller, a configuration for the unconfigured disk drives in accordance with one of a plurality of RAID levels, including:(i) associating with each unconfigured disk drive one or more parameter settings; and(ii) configuring the unconfigured disk drives with a particular RAID level based on the number of unconfigured disk drives and the parameter settings, where the particular RAID level established for the unconfigured disk drives after the configuring may be different from the RAID level before the configuring of other of the connected disk drives; andstoring, by the controller, the configuration with the controller.