Patent ID: 6735715
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer system including:A. one or more storage devices connected to a first bus; B. one or more system components that connect to a second bus and communicate with the storage devices; C. one or more bus adaptors for transferring communications to and from the second bus and the storage devices on the first bus; D. a port duplex driver for mapping one or more communications paths to the storage devices through the one or more bus adaptors to a communication path through a virtual bus adaptor, E. object means for assigning to each storage device on the first bus a device object that corresponds to the communications path through the virtual bus adaptor, the object means informing the system components of the assigned device objects; and F. the port duplex driver further re-directing to a selected one of the bus adaptors communications from the system components that include the assigned device objects.