Methods and apparatus for system memory efficient disk access to

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1997-08-29

2000-02-01

Thai, Tuan V.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

711111, 711112, G06F 1100, G06F 1300

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060214627

ABSTRACT:
A technique for accessing a series of secondary storage devices where a reduced amount of main memory is needed to implement the data transfer is disclosed. The technique operates to share control information stored in the main memory so that most of the main memory allocated to implementing a data transfer is shared by the series of the secondary storage drives.

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