公开(公告)号：GB2295032A

公开(公告)日：1996-05-15

申请号：GB9422932

申请日：1994-11-14

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BEER REGINALD ,  CUTTS STANLEY JOHN ,  KEW STEVEN BRIAN ,  MORRIS NEIL ,  NEWMARCH DAVID

IPC: G05B23/02 ,  G11B33/14 ,  G11B33/10

Abstract: A cooling system provides redundant fault-tolerant cooling to electrical devices in a data storage system and comprises a plurality N+1 individual cooling means, N cooling means being required to provide cooling of said devices and further comprises monitor logic for monitoring the status of said plurality of cooling means and for issuing a non-critical warning to said apparatus in the event of failure of one of said cooling means, said logic being further operable, in the event of a failure in said logic, to issue a non-critical warning to said apparatus.