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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An adapter for a memory device for connecting a detachable memory device to an AT attachment (ATA) interface of a host computer and a connecting method using the adapter are presented. With a conventional adapter which is not supplied with a number of heads and a number of sectors per track of the memory device in advance, the actual numbers of the memory area of the memory device may be different from those supplied the adapter for a memory device. This prevents the memory device from being normally accessed in a cylinder head sector (CHS) mode by the adapter. The adapter for a memory device according to the present invention identifies a file format of data stored in the memory area in the memory device, and retrieves and saves data about the number of heads and the number of sectors per track. Even if the adapter is not previously supplied with the number of heads and the number of sectors per track of the memory device, it accordingly allows the memory device to be accessed in the CHS mode.