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Control device for secondary storage assuring transmission bandwidth

US5778445A · kind A · utility

5Cited by
5References
16Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateOct 13, 1995
Grant dateJul 7, 1998
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Expiry dateOct 13, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B27/36
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a memory, a program for internal control such as temperature compensation and calibration of a disk device and a program for scheduling the transfer timing and transfer size and effecting the control of data stream transfer between a computer and the disk device according to the scheduling are stored as firmware. A CPU controls a timer interrupting section, disk interface driver and internal interface driver according to the program to attain the internal control of the disk device and data transfer between the computer and the disk device. The timer interrupting section permits data transfer according to the scheduling by previously setting the interrupting timing by the CPU and generating an interruption according to the thus set timing.

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