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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony L Overfield, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell USA, L.P., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395830 ; 395828 ; 395833 ; 395427 ; 395428 ; 395442 ; 39549701 ; 395651 ; 364243 ; 364D / ; 364964 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A computer system in which the system software (while running as an overhead process which is not directly under control of the user) queries a disk drive to determine its model. The system software checks the corresponding response string with reference to a table of recognized model strings (in encrypted format). If the drive's response string is recognized in this table, then the drive parameters can be set appropriately. If not, then this portion of the system software will not set the drive parameters; instead, the normal manual setup procedure can be used.