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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2012
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Alan Armstrong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
An integrated circuit of a hard disk drive includes an Ethernet network interface module configured to transmit and receive data packets via an Ethernet connection. The data packets respectively include packet headers and at least one of small computer system interface (SCSI) commands and SCSI data requests. A processor is configured to process the data packets transmitted and received by the Ethernet network interface module. A hard disk control module is configured to control, based on the at least one of the SCSI commands and the SCSI data requests, writing of data to a hard disk and reading of the data from the hard disk. Each of the hard disk control module, the processor, and the network interface module is located in the integrated circuit.