Patent ID: 6971003

Claim:
A method for configuring a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) host adapter card, the RAID host adapter card including a flash storage chip and a RAID input/output processor (IOP), the RAID host adapter card being coupled to a peripheral connection interface (PCI) bus of a computer system and interconnected to at least one hard drive, the computer system having a system memory, the method comprising: booting the computer system; and passing control to the RAID IOP, the RAID IOP performing, reading the flash storage chip to execute a fraction of a code component, the fraction of the code component being previously written to the flash storage chip; communicating to the hard drive to locate a main portion of the code component, the main portion of the code component being previously written to a hidden region; and loading the main portion of the code component to the system memory of the computer system.