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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
May. 04, 2009
Applicants:
Leonard E. Russo, Tomball, TX (US);
Valiuddin Y Ali, Cypress, TX (US);
Lan Wang, Cypress, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/312 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage device includes storage media and a controller to control access of the storage media. The controller receives an erase command used to specify an erase operation of at least one portion of the storage media. The erase command has a control field controllable by a requestor device that submitted the erase command to the storage device, where the control field has one or more portions settable to cause the storage device to perform one or more of: reporting a progress of the erase operation, and modifying an operational state of the erase operation.