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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2016
Super Micro Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kelvin Tseng, San Jose, CA (US);
Trina Shih, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lawrence H. Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
SUPER MICRO COMPUTER, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage enclosure includes a plurality of hard drives coupled to a logic device that, in turn communicates with an operating system (OS) executing on a host computer system. When the storage enclosure is powered on, the hard drives become active at different times and transmit activation reports to the logic device in a random order. The logic device receives these activation reports, and then reorders then to align with the bay numbers where the hard drives are mounted. The logic device then transmits the reordered activation reports, and the OS assigns logical IDs to the hard drives that match the bay numbers.