/ STORING SYSTEM-LEVEL MASS STORAGE CONFIGURATION DATA IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON EACH MASS STORAGE DEVICE TO ALLOW FOR REBOOT/POWER-ON RECONFIGURATION OF ALL INSTALLED MASS STORAGE DEVICES TO THE SAME CONFIGURATION AS LAST USE

摘要

PURPOSE: A method and system are provided to reduce the number of RAMs necessary for storing an extended BIOS necessary for activating a computer. CONSTITUTION: At least one part of BIOS is not stored in a ROM, but stored in a large capacity memory storage device (116) of a large capacity memory storage peripheral computer device (114). This BIOS may be BIOS extended to a specific peripheral computer device, or system BIOS related with a host computer.