Fault tolerant system and method utilizing the peripheral components interconnection bus monitoring card
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Dec 11, 2001
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Jan 21, 1999
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Jan 22, 1998
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An apparatus and method for guaranteeing the integrity of a PCI bus is disclosed. Multiple general purpose computers are connected using the PCI bus, and the PCI bus signals between or among them are compared. The present invention comprises general purpose computers, PCI monitoring cards, and network lines. An apparatus and a method for detecting faults are provided without adopting an exclusive CPU board or input/output bus to detect faults. A PCI monitoring card is appended to each general purpose computer system, and the computer systems are connected to electronic communication media.
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