Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting

Details Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting

1997-06-24

1999-10-19

Bragdon, Reginald G.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

711137, 711140, 711169, G06F 1200

Patent

active

059705086

ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for managing a cache in a disk drive having an intelligent interface for communicating with a host. The drive includes a magnetic disk, and the cache is divisible into a number of segments, and employs a cache control structure including cache parameters. The drive receives a first command and a second command. The method comprises the steps of: performing a scan of the cache to assign the first command to a segment; compensating the cache parameters in response to the scan; and performing a scan to assign the second command to a cache segment prior to caching of data requested in the first command.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5778434 (1998-07-01), Nguyen et al.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2069667