Dell Products Inc.

Peter A Woytovech

Lowell B Dennis

Susan Adele Nunn

Orbie A Welch

Brian J Decker

Thao N Tran

Thao Nguyen

A system and method for unlocking storage drives during the transition from a low power state to an operational state in a computer system is disclosed. During initiation of the computer system, a password for each password-protected storage drive is saved to a memory location in the computer system. During the transition from a low power state to an operational power state, the password associated with each password-protected device is retrieved from the memory location on the basis of the unique identifier associated with each storage drive and applied to the storage drive for the purpose of unlocking or making the storage drive accessible.

System and method for managing access to a storage drive in a computer system

A method for retrieving information about a device within an information handling system comprising a central processing unit and a plurality of devices coupled with the central processing system through an internal bus and a slot based bus expansion system for adding a plurality of devices, comprises the steps of:

Computer system with improved bus handling

A method and system for maintaining a boot sequence in bootable devices is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bootable device configuration for one or more bootable devices in an information handling system, comparing the bootable device configuration to a configuration history of one or more bootable devices; and updating the configuration history.

System and method for managing the boot sequence of an information handling system

An information handling system includes a processor, a storage medium coupled to the processor, and a program stored in the storage medium and executable by the processor. The program is for causing the processor to, in response to a boot event, detect that a device is not present in the information handling system where the device was present in the information handling system during a prior boot event or detect a device that is present but was not present during a prior boot event. The program is also for causing the processor to access a list that indicates a boot order where the list is stored in the storage medium prior to the boot event and including an entry associated with each bootable device. The program is further for causing the processor to store an indicator in the entry where the indicator indicates that the device is dormant or to replace a dormant device in the boot order with a newly present device of the same type.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Peter A Woytovech