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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2002
Vu V. Luu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xuejian Fu, Fremont, CA (US);
Western Digital Ventures, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for accessing data in a hidden area of a physical disk drive. The physical disk drive reports a user logical address range during booting the host computer or configuring an operating system for maintaining a file system, but does not report a hidden logical address range. A virtual disk drive is created that has a virtual logical address range that is reported to the operating system. A driver program is invoked for remapping addresses of the virtual logical address range with addresses of the hidden logical address range. When the file system makes a disk request directed to accessing a file in the virtual logical address range, the disk request is remapped from the virtual logical address range to the hidden logical address range. A command is transmitted to the physical disk drive using the remapped file address range.