Patent ID: 7766733
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: G06F,G11B,H05K

Abstract:
1. A storage control apparatus equipped with a logic board for carrying out storage control, said storage control apparatus comprising: a storage portion including a plurality of storage devices; a vertical logic board, wherein said vertical logic board resides externally of the storage portion and controls access to the storage devices in the storage portion; a cooling mechanism constituted such that air taken in from the front of said storage control apparatus travels to the rear side of said storage control apparatus and then rises up, said risen air rises further while cooling said vertical logic board, and said risen air is discharged from the rear of said storage control apparatus, and multiplexed logical groups, wherein each logical group has one or more of said logic boards, wherein at least two of the multiplexed logical groups are capable of carrying out the same processing, wherein said cooling mechanism comprises at least one of a plurality of intake sources driven to take in air from the front of said storage control apparatus, and a plurality of exhaust sources driven to discharge air from the rear of said storage control apparatus, and wherein each of said plurality of intake sources or each of said plurality of exhaust sources, or both, corresponds to at least one of said multiplexed logical groups, and by virtue of hardware in the circuit design or software, when trouble occurs in a certain logical group of said multiplexed logical groups, and that said certain logical group closes down a stoppage of the driving of the intake source or exhaust source corresponding to said certain logical group is carried out another one of said multiplexed logical groups continues the processing that was being performed by said certain logical group in which trouble occurred, and the rotational speed of said intake source or exhaust source corresponding to at least one of said multiplexed logical groups other than said certain logical group is increased.