52 results about "SGPIO" patented technology

A test set for a server hard disk backplane comprises a complex programmable logic devices (CPLD) chip, and a hard disk fault location index system (SGPIO) bus interface, an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus interface and a serial interface which are connected onto the CPLD chip, wherein the serial interface is used for being connected with a personal computer, the SGPIO bus interface and the I2C bus interface are used for being respectively connected with corresponding interfaces on a server hard disk backplane to be tested, the personal computer can send the test program to the CPLD chip through the serial interface, the CPLD chip is used for correspondingly converting the received test program into an SGPIO bus data format and an I2C bus data format, and sending the two formats to the server hard disk backplane, so the SGPIO bus and the I2C bus of the server hard disk backplane to be tested are tested. The personal computer can be applied to testing the server hard disk back plane through the test set.

The invention provides a system and method for simply controlling hard disk indicator lamps. The system comprises a server main board and an SATA-NVME hard disk back plate or SAS-NVME hard disk back plate. A logic controller, an SAS controller, an NVME controller and an SATA controller are arranged on the server main board. The logic controller judges the type of a hard disk connected with a harddisk interface. When the hard disk is an SATA hard disk, SGPIO signals sent by the SATA controller are analyzed, and the first hard disk state indicator lamp is controlled; when the hard disk is an NVME hard disk, I2C signals sent by the NVME controller are analyzed, and the first hard disk state indicator lamp is controlled; when the hard disk is an SAS hard disk, SGPIO signals sent by the SAS controller are analyzed, and the second hard disk state indicator lamp is controlled; when the hard disk is an NVME hard disk, I2C signals sent by the NVME controller are analyzed, and the second hard disk state indicator lamp is controlled.

The invention provides a test method of an SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) signal on an SAS (Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface) backboard. The method comprises the following steps of: accessing an MINI SAS cable in the SAS backboard and a test system; and then carrying out controlling test through a visualized unit. The SAS backboard structurally comprises a data generating and processing unit simulating an SGPIO signal, the visualized unit and an MINI SAS interface. Compared with the prior art, the test method of the SGPIO signal on the SAS backboard has the advantages of reasonable design, simple structure, convenient use, easy maintenance, and the like, greatly simplifies the test flow under the conditions that server and hard disk resources are not occupied, avoids repeatedly plugging a hard disk and repeatedly booting up or shutting down a server in a traditional test mode and realizes the graphic interface of the SGPIO signal test flow.

The invention discloses a design method for optimizing hard disk management. The method comprises the following steps: sending a hard disk management signal, entering a CPLD (complex programmable logic device), and parsing the hard disk management signal, wherein the hard disk management signal is an SGPIO (serial general purpose input output) signal; after the signal is parsed, monitoring, by the CPLD, the state of a hard disk by virtue of three state indicator lamps for a control state, wherein the SGPIO signal includes four signal wires: SCLOCK, SLOAD, SDOUT and SDIN; in order to guarantee the quality of the management signal, filtering burrs in the signal, and synchronizing the SCLOCK signal by adopting a clock with the frequency of 25MHz in the CPLD. Compared with the prior art, the hard disk management scheme can be optimized without changing the circuit of hardware; by optimizing a code, while the chip resource is sufficiently utilized, the optimization when the hard disk management signal is parsed is realized, an effect for filtering a high-frequency component is realized, and the hard disk management signal quality is further improved; by virtue of the optimized design of the code, the universality of a hard disk backboard is improved, and the practicability is high.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a control bus circuit capable of automatically adjusting a hard disk lamp on a hard disk backplane, which comprises a main chip, a connector and a hard disk backplane. The main chip is connected with the sideband signal Pin pin of the connector through a GPIO Pin for detecting the signal of the connector. The GPIO Pin of the main chip is also connected with a power supply through a resistor; A main chip is connected with an I2C bus, an SGPIO bus, and one end of that I2C bus and the SGPIO bus is connected with a connector bus signal pin through a multiplex signal pin; The hard disk backplane is provided with a bus selection circuit connected with the connector sideband signal Pin and a bus signal management chip connected with the connector bus signal pin. The bus signal management chip is connected with the hard disk lamp. The main chip is configured to select the I2C bus or SGPIO bus to communicate with the hard disk backplane according to thelevel of the bus selection circuit. The embodiment of the invention can not only increase the applicability of the SAS and RAID cards, but also increase the applicability of the hard disk backplane.

The invention discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method comprises that a primary PLD (Programmable Logic Device) is correspondingly connected to N data lines of a group of SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input Output) buses through N data pins, and is communicated with at least two secondary PLDs through the group of SGPIO buses, wherein N is the number of pins of one secondary PLD in connection with the SGPIO buses, and the secondary PLDs are communicated with the primary PLD through the group of SGPIO buses.

The method is suitable for the hard disk detection field. The invention provides a hard disk fault prompting system and method and a storage medium. The hard disk fault prompting system comprises a hard disk, a processor, a signal converter, a prompting control device and a fault prompting device, wherein the hard disk is in communication connection with the processor; the processor is in communication connection with the prompting control device through the signal converter; the prompting control device is in communication connection with the fault prompting device; the hard disk is used forsending state information of the hard disk to the signal converter when detecting that the hard disk is in a fault state; the signal converter is used for converting the state information of the harddisk into an SGPIO signal and sending the SGPIO signal to the prompt control device; and the prompt control device is used for analyzing the SGPIO signal to start the corresponding fault prompt device. In the hard disk fault prompting system, the hard disk is in direct communication connection with the processor to realize hard disk fault prompt, so that a switched RAID card is omitted, and the influence of the RAID card on the bandwidth is reduced, and the cost is saved.

The invention discloses a method and a system for realizing hard disk lighting based on an extended SFF8485 communication mechanism, which relates to the technical field of a universal server. The lighting method includes: extending the SFF8485 communication mechanism to represent the lighting instructions of each set of hard disks with one or more bytes; sending the light instruction of the harddisk to the CPLD in the form of SGPIO signal; allowing CPLD to analyze that SGPIO signal to obtain the lighting instruction data, and then converting the lighting instruction data into a lighting signal and outputs the lighting signal to the LED lamp of the correspond hard disk for the lighting operation of the hard disk. The invention is based on an extended SFF8485 communication mechanism, without changing the hardware structure of the circuit, Only by modifying the lighting instruction program of SAS/RAID card and the code related to the lighting function of CPLD, various lighting modes canbe supported, and the diversified lighting requirements of customers can be met with minimal modification, and a great expansion space is provided, which facilitates the optimization and improvementof the subsequent product scheme.

The invention discloses a lighting method for a SATA hard disk. The lighting method comprises the following steps: a CPLD obtains a dial switch state of a backplane and determines a SGPIO signal source according to the dial switch state; frame information sent by a BMC is received, and a control mode of the SATA hard disk is determined according to the frame information; and a control signal transmitted from a PCH or the BMC is received according to the SGPIO signal source and the control mode so as to perform a lighting operation with the control signal. The method can be used for lighting the SATA hard disk in different control modes. The invention also discloses a lighting system for a SATA hard disk, a computer-readable storage medium and electronic equipment, which have the abovementioned beneficial effects.