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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan Hlava, Longmont, CO (US);
Scott David Mastie, Longmont, CO (US);
Arthur Ray Roberts, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/320 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/320 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method (and apparatus) for optimizing disk access operations which span multiple logical disk partitions and multiple disk drives. The disclosed method makes optimum use of concurrency in the software without causing poor performance due to contention for seeks in a disk drive.