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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian J. Cagno, Carl E. Jones, Gregg S. Lucas, Thomas S. Truman
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Systems and methods for diagnosing faults in a multiple domain storage system. Exemplary embodiments include a system for diagnosing faults, the system including independent servers coupled to a serial attached SCSI switch module, end devices coupled to the serial attached SCSI module, at least one external cable connected between the serial attached SCSI module and the plurality of end devices, wherein the external cable defined an external fabric between the serial attached SCSI module and the plurality of end devices; and a process residing on the external fabric, the process having instructions to disable a high speed serializer/deserializer residing on each of the plurality of end devices, enable a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface residing on each of the plurality of end devices, send and receive single ended data and in response to a complete data transfer, disabling the universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface and enabling the high speed serializer/deserializer.
A system having multiple domain storage and for diagnosing faults, the system comprising:
A method for diagnosing faults in a multiple domain storage system, the method comprising:
A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing a method for diagnosing faults in a multiple domain storage system, the method comprising:
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