Patent ID: 7373436

Claim:
A method for operating a storage control device adapted to be coupled to a host processing device through a full-duplex channel, the method comprising: receiving data from the host processing device in a channel controller of the storage control device via the full-duplex channel; in a cache memory of the storage control device, temporarily storing the data received from the host processing device; in a storage medium of the storage control device, storing the data from the cache memory; processing in a plurality of processors of the channel controller write-in and read-out commands issued by the host processing device; if a ratio between a first amount of data to be read from the host processing device through a receiving channel of the full-duplex channel and a second amount of data to be written to the host processing device through a transmitting channel of the full-duplex channel is greater than a predetermined threshold, then assigning, via a control process of the channel controller, the lesser of the first amount and the second amount to at least two processors of the plurality.