System and method for storing and restoring configuration information of external board card
A technology for configuring information and restoring the system. It is applied in the fields of response error generation, instrumentation, and electrical digital data processing. It can solve problems such as inability to configure and save, and difficulty in retrieving configuration information.
Inactive Publication Date: 2012-05-23
HONG FU JIN PRECISION IND (SHENZHEN) CO LTD +1
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[0002] With the development of computer technology, more and more boards (such as Redundant Array of Independent Disk, RAID boards) are connected to the server system, and many boards have their own storage chips and firmware. (Firmware), these external boards and Firmware are completely independent from the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) on the main board of the server. The configuration information on the board is stored in the BIOS of the board itself, and cannot Configure and save the motherboard BIOS on the
Once an unexpected situation such as damage to the external board occurs, the configuration information of the original board will be lost. When the configuration information on these original boards is very important or the reconfiguration is very complicated, it will be very difficult to retrieve the configuration information on the original board. However, when replacing a board, once the configuration information of the replaced board is wrong, the consequences will be very serious. For example, if the configuration information of the RAID card on the server is different from that of the original board When inconsistent, all data on the hard drive may be deleted, with disastrous consequences
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[0013] Such as figure 1 As shown, it is an application environment diagram of a preferred embodiment of the system for saving and restoring configuration information of external cards of the present invention. The external board configuration information saving and restoring system 120 runs in the basic input and output system (basic input and output system, BIOS) 12 of the external board 10 . The specific content of the external board configuration information preservation and recovery system 120 will be in figure 2 and image 3 described in detail.
[0014] The external board 10 is a graphics card and other external devices that can be connected to the motherboard 20. In this preferred embodiment, the external board 10 is an independent redundant disk array (Redundant Array of Independent Disk, RAID) Card. The BIOS 12 also includes a storage medium 128 . The storage medium 128 is used to store the configuration information of the external board 10, the configuration in...
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The invention discloses a system and a method for storing and restoring the configuration information of an external board card. The method comprises the steps of: calling a setting interface function of a Runtime service in a mainboard BIOS (Basic Input Output System) so as to store configuration information on the external board card in a storage medium of the BIOS; when the external board card is replaced, calling an obtaining interface function of the Runtime service in the mainboard BIOS by the replaced external board card, judging whether the stored configuration information read from the mainboard BIOS is consistent with the configuration information of the replaced external board card; and when the judgment result is that the configuration information obtained from the mainboard BIOS is inconsistent with the configuration information of the replaced external board card, replacing the configuration information of the replaced external board card by using the configuration information stored in the mainboard BIOS. According to the invention, the configuration information on all external board cards is kept consistent.
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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a system and method for saving and restoring configuration information of external boards. Background technique [0002] With the development of computer technology, more and more boards (such as Redundant Array of Independent Disk, RAID boards) are connected to the server system, and many boards have their own storage chips and firmware. (Firmware), these external boards and Firmware are completely independent from the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) on the main board of the server. The configuration information on the board is stored in the BIOS of the board itself, and cannot Configure and save the motherboard BIOS on the computer. Once an unexpected situation such as damage to the external board occurs, the configuration information of the original board will be lost. When the configuration information on these original boards is very important or the reconfiguration is very complicated, it will be very difficult to retri...
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IPC IPC(8): G06F11/14
CPCG06F11/1417G06F11/1415
Inventor 李岩
Owner HONG FU JIN PRECISION IND (SHENZHEN) CO LTD