Detecting insertion of removable media

Details Detecting insertion of removable media Detecting insertion of removable media

2006-10-31

2006-10-31

Elamin, A. (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07130992

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a method and system to automatic loading program on a medium into memory for execution. In one embodiment, a mode word is configured. The insertion of the medium into a drive is detected based on the mode word. A program on the medium is started when insertion is detected. In another embodiment, a polling circuit in a chipset detects the insertion of the medium into the drive. A status bit is checked in response to an interrupt generated by the polling circuit. A flag in a memory is updated based on the status bit. A poll request by an operating system is responded.

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