Cache system of external storage device
US5586290A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 4, 1994 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 4, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F12/0891
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a cache system for executing a cache operation for an external storage device, there is disposed a block number table for stopping a cache function for an external storage device, for which a storage medium is exchanged, when the storage medium of the external storage device is exchanged, and stores the number of data stored from each external storage device into the cache memory when all the data cached from a certain external storage device are purged out by a purging process or an LRU process, so as to restore the cache function of this external storage device.
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