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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2001
Gayle L. Noble, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Rick S. Shimizu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason P. Hanlon, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Gayle L. Noble, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Rick S. Shimizu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason P. Hanlon, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus to transfer data from a peripheral device directly to a disc drive storage system. In one aspect, the disc drive uses a transfer protocol that determines the types, sizes and data location structure for each file. In another aspect, the disc drive includes a file allocation table that stores the file location for the peripheral devices on the disc drive to increase the file transfer efficiency and speed.