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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1997
Byung-Joon Lee, Suwon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A method for improving the performance of a read cache of a magnetic disk drive includes: a data transmission process for reading corresponding data from the disk in response to a data read command of a host computer, temporarily storing the corresponding data in a constant unit storage region of a data transmission storage device, and transmitting the corresponding data to the host computer; a first read cache process for reading, from the disk, first data corresponding in size to the unit storage region and taken from a series of data after the corresponding data, and storing the first data in the unit storage region; and a second read cache process for reading, from the disk, second data corresponding in size to the unit storage region and taken from a series of data after the first data, and storing the second data in all other unit storage regions of the data transmission storage device.