Method and apparatus for writing data to a storage device

Details Method and apparatus for writing data to a storage device Method and apparatus for writing data to a storage device

2006-07-11

2006-07-11

Bataille, Pierre-Michel (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S167000

Reexamination Certificate

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07076605

ABSTRACT:
A method of writing data to a storage medium comprises receiving blocks of data to be written to a physical medium of the disk, from a data source and storing the blocks of data in a write cache for the disk. The method further comprises checking the status of a flush criterion that controls when to flush the write cache; flushing the write cache by writing the data in the write cache to the physical medium if the flush criterion is satisfied; and sending a message to the data source to indicate that the blocks of data have been written to the physical medium.

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