Patent
1996-01-11
1997-07-15
Auve, Glenn A.
395839, 395481, 395618, 395621, G06F 1300
Patent
active
056492120
ABSTRACT:
Data destruction resulting from the conversion of a floppy disk can be prevented during a low-power consumption mode in which the FDD is powered off. The present invention is also designed to prevent data destruction resulting from the conversion of a floppy disk during a low-power consumption mode in which an FDC and an FDD are stopped. In the process of returning to a normal operation mode, an I/O address showing a change line status register of the FDC is set to a stored register of the trap logic (status 173). When the process returns to the normal operation mode and an access to the first status register is trapped, a change line status flag value is rewritten (status 174). The faked OS/driver invalidates the floppy disk allocation information in the main memory.
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Kawamura Tateo
Shimotono Susumu
Auve Glenn A.
Dillon Andrew J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
McKinley Martin
Russell Brian F.
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