Patent ID: 8464238

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: replacing a first driver with a second driver, the drivers executed by a computing system coupled to a peripheral device that is operationally coupled to one or more target devices in a storage area network, the first driver complying with a first protocol and the second driver complying with a second protocol, the first and second protocols being different, obtaining identifier information for the target devices used by the first driver in a first format and complying with the first protocol; converting the identifier information for the target devices from the first format supported by the first driver to a second format supported by the second driver the first format being different from the second format; and automatically persistently binding the converted target device identifier information to a port of the peripheral device such that the second driver can use the persistently bound converted target device identifier information to communicate with the target devices via the port without having to manually enter target device identifier information in the second format; wherein the first driver is a SCSIport driver and the second driver is a STORport driver.