Patent ID: 7752385
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data storage enclosure, comprising: an enclosure connector plane, comprising: a first plurality of hard disk drives (HDDs), each HDD coupled to one of the first plurality of disk connectors; first and second redundant controller cards associated with the first plurality of HDDs and coupled to the first and second controller card connectors, respectively, each of the first and second controller cards containing a SCSI enclosure services (SES) processor and a non-volatile storage (NVS) unit associated with the SES processor, the first SES processor being designated as a master processor, the first controller card further containing a configuration table stored in the NVS unit associated with the master SES processor and accessible by the master SES processor into which one of a first, second and third configuration instruction, defining a storage enclosure configuration, is loadable from an external configuration unit;