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A method for obtaining the total capacity of hard disks of storage servers

A storage server and total capacity technology, applied in the direction of input/output to record carriers, etc., can solve the problems of inaccurately obtaining the total capacity of the hard disk, difficulty in obtaining the total capacity of the hard disk, customer troubles and inconvenience, etc., to reduce customized versions, easy to promote, Wide range of effects

Active Publication Date: 2018-12-25
LANGCHAO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IND CO LTD
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Due to the differences in storage nodes, the interfaces and forms of hard disks are also different, and the same storage motherboard and the same customer sometimes have different configuration requirements for hard disks, which makes it difficult for the BIOS to accurately obtain the total capacity of hard disks.
If the total capacity of the hard disk cannot be accurately obtained, it will bring trouble and inconvenience to customers

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[0014] Taking the three configuration requirements of a storage server as an example, the method for obtaining the total hard disk capacity of the storage server described in this embodiment will be described in detail below.

[0015] Assume that the three hard disk configurations of the same storage server are as follows: 18 4T hard disks; 18 8T hard disks; 4T and 8T hard disks are mixed (total 18). If you want all Seagate hard drives, you can know from the model number provided on the Seagate hard drive: the string "ST4000" corresponds to a 4TB hard drive, and "ST8000" corresponds to an 8TB hard drive. Before loading the boot device into the system, the BIOS reads all the bootable device lists created in the previous BIOS BDS stage and matches the hard disk list strings required by the manufacturer (storage server requirements support), such as "ST4000" and "ST8000", and the string configuration The total capacity of the hard disk is the sum of the capacities of the hard dis...

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The invention discloses a method for obtaining the total capacity of a hard disk of a storage server, and relates to the field of server and storage server firmware. Before the BIOS loads the boot device into the system, it reads the list of all bootable devices (BBS) and the storage device created in the BIOS BDS stage. The server requires a list of supported hard disk devices and compares them to obtain the capacity of each hard disk, and then adds up the capacity of each hard disk to obtain the total capacity of the hard disk. This method can accurately obtain the total capacity of the hard disk of the storage server, and will not cause errors in reading the total capacity due to the replacement of the hard disk or external disk controller by the customer, and will not need to change the BIOS due to changes in external hardware, saving development, testing, and production lines Human resources in various links such as operation, strong practicability, wide application range, and easy promotion.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of server and storage server firmware, in particular to a method for obtaining the total capacity of a hard disk of a storage server. Background technique [0002] With the continuous development of mobile Internet and big data, storage servers are being widely used. Customers need to know the hardware information of the motherboard through a certain method, such as CPU model, memory capacity, number of hard disks and total capacity. For storage server customers, they are more concerned about the parameter of total hard disk capacity. Due to differences in storage nodes, the interfaces and forms of hard disks are also different, and the same storage motherboard and the same customer sometimes have different configuration requirements for hard disks, which makes it difficult for the BIOS to accurately obtain the total capacity of hard disks. If the total capacity of the hard disk cannot be accurately obtained, it wil...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/06
Inventor 王庆鹏
Owner LANGCHAO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IND CO LTD
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