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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:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2005
Applicants:
Vicky P. Duerk, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Nai-chih Chang, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Pak-lung Seto, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Victor Lau, Marlboro, MA (US);
Inventors:
Vicky P. Duerk, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Nai-Chih Chang, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Pak-lung Seto, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Victor Lau, Marlboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 19/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes one or more storage devices, a host bus adapter (HBA) and a bridging device coupled between the one or more storage device and the HBA. The bridging device includes a register having bits corresponding to each of the one or more storage devices. Each bit indicates whether staggered spin-up is enabled at a corresponding storage device.