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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2001
Thomas D. Hanan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Thomas D. Hanan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Western Digital Ventures, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive and method are disclosed for using a mailbox file associated with a disk storage medium for performing a function characterized by contents of the mailbox file. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a disk drive comprises a disk storage medium having a first range of disk drive host interface addressable locations accessible by a host computer operating system, at least one of the addressable locations being used to designate a mailbox file. The disk drive comprises a disk controller for responding to a command from the host computer operating system that references the mailbox file to perform a function characterized by contents of the mailbox file.