Patent ID: 7814246

Claim:
A system, comprising: a bridge translator comprising a plurality of host interfaces of different types, said bridge translator configured to couple to a plurality of redundantly configured storage devices and to a host over at least one of said host interfaces, said bridge translator also translates data received from the host over said at least one of said host interfaces to a format compatible with the redundantly configured storage devices; a controller coupled to said bridge translator, said controller configures said bridge translator to translate the data based on a redundancy configuration of said storage devices and based on the type of host interface over which said data is received; and a selection logic coupled to said bridge translator and configured to couple to said redundantly configured storage devices and to a host via a host interface, wherein said selection logic, in response to a signal from the controller, selects data from one of the bridge translator and the host interface to be provided to the redundantly configured storage devices wherein data selected by the selection to is from the host interface is provided by the host interface directly to the selection logic.