Computer with extensible firmware interface implementing parallel storage-device enumeration
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTerry Ping-Chung Lee, Ram Krishan Kaul, Vijay Vishwanath Hegde, Santosh Ananth Rao
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Abstract
A computer includes an extensible firmware interface with a storage device enumeration function that performs storage device enumeration operations in parallel.
Claims15
A computer comprising:
- hardware including at least a first storage-device interface;
- and
- an extensible firmware interface including a storage-device enumerator function for enumerating storage-devices attached to said storage-device interface using parallel storage-device enumeration operations, said storage-device enumerator function conforming to a SCSI Pass Through Protocol.
A method comprising:
- powering on or rebooting a computer;
- and
- performing parallel storage-device enumeration operations to enumerate storage devices, said storage-device enumerator operations conforming to a SCSI Pass Through Protocol.
A product comprising non-transitory tangible computer storage media encoded with a program of computer-executable instructions, said program being configured to, when executed by a processor, implement an extensible firmware interface with an enumeration function that performs storage-device enumeration operations in parallel, said storage-device enumerator operations conforming to a SCSI Pass Through Protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.