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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2013
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., New Taipei, TW;
Chih-Huang Wu, New Taipei, TW;
HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
In a method for managing redundant array of independent disk (RAID) cards, physical layer (PHY) chips of the RAID card is detected by a serial port. Information of a malfunctioning PHY chip and a standby PHY chip is read and stored in a firmware of a flash erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) of the RAID card. An address of the malfunctioning PHY chip is set as an address of the standby PHY chip, and a hard disk electronically connected to the malfunctioning PHY chip is connected to the standby PHY chip. A new serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) address is obtained by amending an original SAS address according to the number and address of the standby PHY chip, and a new firmware is created in the flash EPROM according to the new SAS address.