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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2008
Robert M. Fallone, Lake Forest, CA (US);
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Young H. Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert M. Fallone, Lake Forest, CA (US);
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Young H. Lee, Irvine, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed wherein during a first boot operation, first boot data is transmitted from a first plurality of data sectors to a host, and a first log identifying the first plurality of data sectors is maintained. During a second boot operation, second boot data is transmitted from a second plurality of data sectors to the host, and a second log identifying the second plurality of data sectors is maintained. During a third boot operation, data sectors identified by the first and/or second logs are pre-fetched into a cache.