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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2005
Steven Bress, Germantown, MD (US);
Dan Bress, Germantown, MD (US);
Mark Joseph Mernz, Folsom, CA (US);
Steven Bress, Germantown, MD (US);
Dan Bress, Germantown, MD (US);
Mark Joseph Mernz, Folsom, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An improved tailgate device allows a host to have full access to a long-term storage device when the drive interface on the host and the drive interface on the storage device are of different types. An improved tailgate device is placed between the host and the storage device. A second host may be connected to the improved tailgate device. Commands from the first host are interpreted as industry standard Tailgate commands. Commands from the second host are not restricted to industry standard commands. Any data returned by a command is returned to the Host that issued the command.