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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Loo Shing Tan, Penang, MY;
King Heng Lock, Penang, MY;
Soon Chieh Lim, Penang, MY;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method is provided in which an integrated circuit that includes an integrated input/output (I/O) controller is coupled to a storage system. The integrated circuit is coupled to a host processor system bus via a dedicated communication path. The storage system is capable of being coupled to and de-coupled from at least one removable storage device, and of receiving from the integrated circuit, when the storage system is coupled to the integrated circuit, data and/or an I/O request. The method of the embodiment also includes coupling or de-coupling the at least one removable storage device to or from, respectively, the storage system. The storage system remains capable of receiving from the integrated circuit the data and/or I/O request while the at least one removable storage device is being coupled to or de-coupled from the storage system.