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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 15, 2012
Kevin Mundt, Austin, TX (US);
Frank Widjaja Yu, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin Mundt, Austin, TX (US);
Frank Widjaja Yu, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for out of band notification of a hard drive status change may be provided. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, a hard disk drive communicatively coupled to the processor via an input/output (I/O) bus for communicating I/O data between the processor and the hard disk drive, and an indicator configured to provide a user-detectable indication of I/O activity occurring on the I/O bus. The hard disk drive may include general purpose input/output (GPIO) terminal independent from the I/O bus and communicatively coupled to the processor, and the hard disk drive may be configured to assert the GPIO terminal in response to an occurrence of a status event of the hard disk drive.