| US 7,574,559 B2 | ||
| Method and apparatus for rental storage system | ||
| Akemi Sanada, Chigasaki (Japan); Hideo Tabuchi, Odawara (Japan); Toshio Nakano, Chigasaki (Japan); Sajio Ishizuki, Odawara (Japan); and Isamu Kage, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 25, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/88,782. | ||
| Application 10/422955 is a division of application No. 09/987815, filed on Nov. 16, 2001, granted, now 6,868,398. | ||
| Application 11/088782 is a continuation of application No. 10/422955, filed on Apr. 25, 2003, granted, now 6,889,204. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2001-117611 (JP), filed on Apr. 17, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0171929 A1, Aug. 04, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 711—114 | 15 Claims |
| 1. A system having a disk array device and information processing terminal, said disk array device comprising:
a channel adapter which is connected to a host computer and communicates data with said host computer;
a memory which stores data received by said channel adapter;
a disk adapter which controls so as to write said data stored in said memory into storage areas; and
a plurality of disk drive units having a plurality of storage areas to which are written data under control of said disk adapter,
wherein said information processing terminal is connected to said disk array device and displays information about said disk
array device,
wherein said disk array device maintains information about which storage areas are usable for a data reading/writing process
at a certain time, and
wherein information processing terminal displays information about which storage areas are usable for data reading/writing
process at a certain time.
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