System using the storage level of file updates in nonvolatile memory to trigger saving of RAM to disk and using the file updates to reboot after crash
US5241672A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 1, 1991 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 1, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99953
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An electronic printing system with plural hard disks for storing system files in which file management information is held in a Volume Allocation Table in internal system RAM memory with file management updates queued in NVM, with the contents of the Volume Allocation Table transferred to external disk memory when the queue of file management updates in NVM reaches a predetermined size.
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