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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2004
Applicants:
Adam Michael Espeseth, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Anton Steinbach, East Bethel, MN (US);
Trevor James Briggs, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Adam Michael Espeseth, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Anton Steinbach, East Bethel, MN (US);
Trevor James Briggs, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Commands in a queue in a hard disk drive (HDD) are selected based on a benefit of providing either an optimized throughput or an optimized number of commands per second execution, as opposed to a simple shortest access time first (SATF) selection method.