Patent 7913023 was granted and assigned to LSI Corporation on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The optimal lanes of at least one SAS wide port for the data connection are discovered. The allowable lanes for the data connection within the SAS wide ports of each level of the SAS domain are specified. The specified allowable lanes for the data connection are checked. The data connection is created on the specified allowable lanes.