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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J Moreno, Boulder, CO (US);
Brian E Trede, Lafayette, CO (US);
Robert W Schmidt, Lafayette, CO (US);
Assignee:
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ;
Abstract
A solid-state cache memory subsystem configured to be used in conjunction with disk drives for prestaging of data in advance of its being called for by a host computer features a controller featuring means for establishing and maintaining precise correspondence between storage locations in the solid-state array and on the disk memory, for use in establishing a reoriented position on a disk in the event of error detection, and in order to determine when a predetermined quantity of data has been read from the disk into the cache in a staging operation.