Mechanism to control access to a storage device

Details Mechanism to control access to a storage device Mechanism to control access to a storage device

2005-12-19

2009-12-15

Verbrugge, Kevin (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S154000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07634629

ABSTRACT:
A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a storage device, a device controller and a chipset. The device controller includes lock registers having values that correspond to the ranges of locked sectors of the storage device. The lock registers verify if a storage device access request is targeted for ranges of sectors of the storage device that are locked. The chipset includes an embedded controller to authenticate the storage device access request and to manage configuration of the storage device.

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