Patent ID: 7856527
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) system, comprising: a storage system in which a RAID controller connected to an ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) host and a plurality of IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) devices are connected by an IDE bus, wherein at least two or more IDE devices are connected to one channel of the IDE bus, and said RAID controller and each of said IDE devices are connected by a common data bus and a common address bus within said one channel, wherein each of said IDE devices is an SD (Secure Digital) host controller having a protocol conversion engine between ATA and SD, and, wherein each of said IDE devices is connected to a storage device which is an SD memory card, and said SD host controller comprises two systems of SDIO (Secure Digital Input Output) host cores, each of which includes an SD host engine, a group of host registers for controlling the SD host engine, and memory, and two systems of selectors.