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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Ralink Technology Corp., Hsinchu County, TW;
Chan-Shih Lin, Taipei, TW;
Ralink Technology Corp., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for determining an addressing mode of a storage device. The method comprises issuing a first address and a second address in a first addressing mode; converting the first address and the second address as a first device address and a second device address, respectively, according to the addressing mode of the storage device; acquiring a first data according to the first device address; acquiring a second data according to the second device address; and determining whether the addressing mode of the storage device is the first addressing mode or a second addressing mode according to whether the first data and the second data are the same; wherein the first addressing mode comprises more bytes than the second addressing mode.