Patent ID: 6567879
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A device comprising:a first SCSI bus; a second SCSI bus; a first bus controller slot; a second bus controller slot; and, a bus controller in one of the first bus controller slot and the second bus controller slot, the bus controller comprising: reset circuitry for generating a SCSI bus reset signal, the SCSI bus reset signal being used to reset: the first SCSI bus when the bus controller is in the first bus controller slot and the first SCSI bus is isolated from the second SCSI bus, the second SCSI bus when the bus controller is in the second bus controller slot and the first SCSI bus is isolated from the second SCSI bus, and both the first SCSI bus and the second SCSI bus when the first SCSI bus and the second SCSI bus are bridged and one of the following conditions is met: the bus controller is in the first bus controller slot, the bus controller is in the second bus controller slot and the first bus controller slot is empty.