Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

James R Duncan

Kevin B Leigh

Everett R Salinas

Patrick A Raymond

John D Nguyen

Binh Nguyen

Edgar Hance

David A McAfee

Mike L Pelonero

Gerald J Merits

In accordance with the present technique, a system and method for configuring pins of an input/output (I/O) card in a host system are provided. The method includes reading configuration information from a card field replaceable unit memory and reading system configuration information from a system field replaceable unit memory. Additionally, the method includes configuring pins of a system logic of the host system to be compatible with the I/O device of the I/O card, and configuring pins of an I/O device on the I/O card to in turn configure the pins of the I/O card with a configuration setting compatible with the host system.

Reconfigurable I/O card pins

A fault tolerant network server is described. This server has a pair of processing units, each processing unit has at least one CPU, system memory, an interface for a RAID system, at least one disk drive, a network interface, a cluster network interface, a power supply, and a case. The cases of both processing units are slideably mounted in a rack-mountable server case. The server also has a RAID system mounted in the server case and powered by two, redundant, power supplies and coupled to the processing units through isolators for blocking transactions when a processing unit has insufficient power or is being serviced.

Fault tolerant network server having multiple slideably-mounted processing elements sharing a redundant array of independent disks through SCSI isolators

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Houston, TX, United States of America

James R Duncan