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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
John E. Maroney, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0692 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying disk drives and processing data access requests. A disk drive may be identified as an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) drive, a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) drive, and/or an ATA packet interface (ATAPI) drive. Data access requests for the disk drive may be translated to NVME commands, AHCI commands, or ATAPI commands, based on whether the drive is identified as a NVME drive, an AHCI drive, and/or an ATAPI drive.