Remediation action initiation responsive to storage control feature disabling
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsWen-Bin Lin, Chao-Wen Cheng, Chien-Cheng Su
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Abstract
In some examples, a system detects disabling of a driver of a storage control feature included in a main processor of the system, where the storage control feature to manage access of a storage device. In response to detecting the disabling of the driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor, the system initiates a remediation action to prevent a fault in the system.
Claims17
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a system to:
- detect, by a utility program, disabling of a driver of a storage control feature included in a main processor of the system, the storage control feature to manage access of a storage device, wherein the driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor is disabled based on a setting of boot code in the system, wherein the utility program is executed in an operating system (OS) environment of the system;
- and
- in response to detecting the disabling of the driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor, initiate a remediation action to prevent a fault in the system.
A system comprising:
- a storage device;
- a chipset;
- a storage medium storing a utility program;
- a main processor including a storage control feature to manage access of the storage device, the main processor to:
- execute the utility program in an operating system (OS) environment of the system;
- detect, via the utility program executing in the OS environment, disabling of a first driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor, wherein the first driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor is disabled based on a setting of boot code in the system;
- and
- in response to detecting the disabling of the first driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor, initiate a remediation action to prevent a fault in the system that would be caused due to the disabling of the first driver,
- wherein after the remediation action, a second driver is executable on the main processor to manage access of the storage device using a storage control feature of the chipset.
A method performed in a system comprising a main processor, comprising:
- receiving a user modification of a setting that disables a storage control feature included in the main processor, the storage control feature to manage access of a storage device, wherein the setting is boot code in the system;
- detecting, by a utility program, the disabling of the storage control feature included in the main processor, wherein a driver of the storage control feature included in the main processor is disabled based on a setting of the boot code in the system, wherein the utility program is executed in an operating system (OS) environment of the system and is invoked after the OS environment is launched;
- initiating, by the utility program, a remediation action to prevent a fault caused by the disabling of the storage control feature included in the main processor;
- and
- after the remediation action, activating a storage control feature in a chipset of the system to manage access of the storage device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.