Quanta Computer Assigned Patent
SAS/SATA HDD update via management controller
By Francis Pelletier | February 19, 2021 at 2:14 pmQuanta Computer, Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,884,624) developed by Lai, Te-Hsien, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “SAS/SATA hard disk drive update via management controller.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems of updating serial attached small computer system interface (SAS)/serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) hard disk drive (HDD) firmware (FW) using a management controller (MC) are provided. The method includes uploading the HDD FW to the MC via the local area network, LAN, breaking the HDD FW into a plurality of chunks, issuing a plurality of write commands and writing the plurality of chunks into the SAS HDD.”
The patent application was filed on February 19, 2019 (16/279,799).
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