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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. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasuhiko Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711113 ; 711137 ;
Abstract
A disk controller (HDC) reads requested data from a disk in accordance with a read command from a host system, and stores the data in a buffer memory. The HDC reads successive data, together with the requested data, and stores the data in the buffer memory. When a repeat access request is issued from the host system, the HDC temporarily stops disk access which has been continued. A CPU determines the amount of data stored in the buffer memory by disk access on the basis of a limit value set in a limit register. The HDC reads requested data corresponding to the repeat access request from the buffer memory and transfers the data to the host system.