Data storage system and control method thereof
AssigneeWistron Corporation
InventorsShih-Hui CHANG, Ming-Sheng WU, Chieh-Yi LIN
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Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a data storage system and a control method thereof. The data storage system includes a plurality of data storage devices, a temporary memory device and an expander. The control method includes: detecting, by the expander, if a flag is in a first status after the expander is restarted; sending, by the expander, a first command to all the data storage devices if the first status is detected. The first status indicates that all the data storage devices are ready for linking and operation.
Claims15
A control method for a data storage system, the data storage system having
- a plurality of storage devices, a temporary memory device and an expander;
- the control method comprising:
- detecting whether a flag is in a first status by the expander after the expander is restarted, wherein the flag is stored in the temporary memory device;
- sending a first command to all the data storage devices by the expander when the first status is detected.
A data storage system, comprising:
- a plurality of storage devices;
- a temporary memory device which stores a flag, when all the data storage devices are ready, the flag is set to a first status;
- and
- an expander coupled to the data storage devices, when the flag detected by the expander is in the first status, the expander sends a first command to all the data storage devices after the expander is restarted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.