System for identifying the physical location of one or more peri

Details System for identifying the physical location of one or more peri System for identifying the physical location of one or more peri

1997-10-22

2000-08-08

Lee, Thomas C.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral monitoring

340635, 345 82, 369 82, G06F 1314

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061015598

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus which indicates the physical location of one or more peripheral devices. A system operator uses an input device to select an icon that is displayed on a display device. The icon represents a single peripheral device or a group of peripheral devices among a plurality of peripheral devices. For example, an icon may represent a disk drive, a group of disk drives disposed within a storage unit, an array of disk drives, an array of disk drives disposed within one or more storage units, etc. After the system operator selects the icon, an indicator light associated with each of the one or more peripheral devices represented by the icon illuminates to identify the physical location of the selected peripheral device or devices. Other peripheral devices are contemplated, such as a bank of modems, floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, etc.

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