Using a file enabler with firmware

Details Using a file enabler with firmware Using a file enabler with firmware

1996-07-16

1999-02-23

Auve, Glenn A.

39518222, G06F 130

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058753443

ABSTRACT:
A computer system has a mass storage device storing a file enabler associated with a file system for enabling file operations, a firmware memory storing a firmware routine, and a second memory. The computer system also has a microprocessor connected to load the file enabler stored on the mass storage device into the second memory and allow the firmware routine to access the file enabler stored in the second memory in file operations. The computer system may be a portable computer, and the firmware routine may be a hibernation routine.

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IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 38 No. 5, May 1995, "Operating System and Machine Independent Hibernation", pp. 143-144.

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