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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Joyce Metevier, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ahsan Habib, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Arnold T. Schnell, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Inventors:
Joyce Metevier, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ahsan Habib, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Arnold T. Schnell, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F013/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The need for a SAF-TE processor embedded on a SCSI backplane of a hot-swap hard disk drive enclosure is eliminated by utilizing the functionality of a RAID on motherboard (ROMB) controller and an Embedded Server Management (ESM) interface already present in an information handling system. Only sensors and input-output (I/O) registers remain on the SCSI backplane as required. The SCSI backplane I/O is split between the ESM and ROMB according to functional requirements.