Appeal No. 1997-4116 Page 5
Application No. 08/589,826
processing units, said real storage comprising said
two or more reconfigurable storage entities, each of
said two or more reconfigurable storage entities
comprising one or more addressable entities, each of
said one or more addressable entities having at
least two status states, a first state and a second
state, said first state being "non-preferred",
designating that an associated addressable entity
should not contain fixed data, and said second state
being "preferred", designating that the associated
addressable entity may contain fixed data, and each
of said two or-more reconfigurable storage entities
having at least two status states, a first status
state being "non-preferred", designating that an
associated reconfigurable storage entity should not
contain fixed data, and a second status state being
"preferred", designating that the associated
reconfigurable storage entity may contain fixed
data, said method comprising the steps of:
a. detecting an uncorrectable storage error in
a damaged one of said one or more
addressable entities in a first of said two
or more reconfigurable storage entities;
b. locating a second of said two or more
reconfigurable storage entities, said
second of said two or more reconfigurable
storage entities being a potential source
entity for a storage reassign function
between said second and said first of said
two or more reconfigurable storage
entities;
c. locating a same relative addressable entity
in said second of said two or more
reconfigurable storage entities, said same
relative addressable entity having a same
relative position within said second of
said two or more reconfigurable storage
entities as has said damaged one of said
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