Patent ID: 7543190

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: plural processing components operable to process information; an SAS link controller interfaced with the processing components and operable to communicate information between the processing components and an SAS link; an SAS link interfaced with the SAS link controller, the SAS link operable to communicate information between the SAS link controller and one or more devices interfaced with the SAS link; an SCSI enclosure processor interfaced with the SAS link and a management bus, the SCSI enclosure processor operable to communicate with the one or more devices through the management bus to monitor the status of the devices; a error detector interfaced with the SAS link and operable to determine if errors associated with communication of information through the SAS link exceed a predetermined error threshold; and an error filter module interfaced with the error detector and the SCSI enclosure processor, the error filter module operable to filter errors determined by the error detector if a predetermined status is detected for a device by the SCSI enclosure processor.