Patent ID: 7437505

Claim:
A computer readable medium comprising executable instructions for visually representing a status of a plurality of storage device slots and a plurality of attached storage devices by: assigning a logical name to a storage device slot based on an enumeration rule; detecting a storage device attached to a computer system; storing a correlation between a physical location of the storage device slot and the assigned logical name; monitoring an availability and an operating status of the plurality of storage device slots and the plurality of attached storage devices; and generating a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) representation of the plurality of storage device slots and the plurality of attached storage devices, wherein the WYSIWYG representation includes physical location information, operating status information, and logical names for the plurality of storage device slots and the plurality of attached storage devices, wherein the WYSIWG representation includes a matrix-like map displaying a plurality of storage devices, each of which assigns one or more sets of the physical location information and the logical name correlated with one another.