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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:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ming Y. Wang, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk having a plurality of tracks, each track comprising a plurality of blocks. A semiconductor memory comprises a cache buffer having a plurality of segment pools, each segment pool comprising a plurality of cache segments, each cache segment comprises at least one block, and the number of blocks in each cache segment varies between segment pools. When a host command is received, the command size is compared to a threshold in order to allocate a cache segment from a first segment pool or a second segment pool.