Method and system for ordering priority commands on a commodity disk drive
US6301639A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 26, 1999 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 26, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0674
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a computer system including a disk controller and a disk drive, the disk controller determines whether to issue a command to the disk drive by considering both a priority level associated with the command, and a pending workload of the disk drive.
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