Patent ID: 7003617
Filing Date: 2006-02-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for managing fibre channel target resets issued to SCSI sequential devices, the system comprising: a host device operable to communicate information to target devices and to issue target resets for recovery from errors in the communication of information; a fibre channel bus interfaced with the host device and operable to communicate the target resets; a fibre-SCSI bridge interfaced with the fibre channel bus and operable to accept the target resets and execute bus resets for associated SCSI buses; plural SCSI buses interfaced with the fibre-SCSI bridge; one or more sequential target devices interfaced with each SCSI bus; and a bus reset control module associated with the fibre-SCSI bridge and operable to determine whether one or more of the SCSI buses have a faulty target device when the host issues a target reset, the bus reset control module further operable to issue bus resets to SCSI buses having a faulty target device and precluding the issue of bus resets to SCSI buses lacking a faulty target device.