Disk drive employing boot disk space to expedite the boot...

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2008-02-12

2011-12-20

Du, Thuan (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C711S163000, C711S173000, C365S215000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08082433

ABSTRACT:
A disk drive is disclosed wherein boot data is transmitted from a first plurality of data sectors to a host during a first boot operation, and a log is maintained identifying a plurality of the transmitted data sectors. The log is used to write the boot data to a boot disk space comprising a second plurality of data sectors. During a second boot operation, the boot data is pre-fetched from the second plurality of data sectors of the boot disk space and stored in a cache.

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