Patent ID: 6957288

Claim:
An information handling system having at least one small computer system interface (SCSI) disk drive, said system comprising: a motherboard; an embedded server management (ESM) interface coupled to a first serial communications bus, said ESM interface attached to and in electrical communication with said motherboard; a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) on motherboard (ROMB) controller coupled to a second serial communications bus, said ROMB attached to and in electrical communication with said motherboard; a SCSI accessed fault tolerant enclosure (SAF-TE) backplane having sensors, an input-output (I/O) interface and at least one SCSI connector, wherein the sensors are coupled to the I/O interface and the first and second serial communications buses are coupled to the I/O interface; and at least one SCSI disk drive coupled to the at least one SCSI connector.