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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroshi Terada, Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Koarai, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 ;
Abstract
A computer system and a method for controlling a USB FDD include a disk driver process routine including steps of requesting a disk drive process from a host program, if a subject of the disk drive process is a USB FDD and it is also necessary to communicate through the USB HC, and generating an I/O trap system management interrupt (SMI). After generating the SMI, the communication to the USB FDD through the USB HC is executed by a split process. After finishing the split process, a status indicating a status of result of the split process is outputted to the host program.