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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Yafu J. Ding, Milpitas, CA (US);
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and computer readable media having program instructions for preparing a storage media are provided. The method includes partitioning a selected storage media into two or more partitions. Once partitioned, a kernel mode driver interface is called in order to create a logical device control block (DCB) on-the-fly for each of the two or more partitions. The method the follows to formatting each of the two or more partitions. The method includes identifying partitions that have not been previously formatted, associating the created logical DCBs with physical device control block information of the identified partitions, assigning drive letters to the identified partitions, and associating the drive letters with the physical device control block information. The drive preparation is configured to be performed without having to reboot the computer system driving the preparation after the partitioning or after the formatting. The user preparing the storage media can therefore immediately begin using and saving data to the newly prepared drive.