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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ross John Stenfort, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2013.01); G06F 1/30 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0038 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bridge receives a power down command and in response converts the power down command to a data hardening command. The bridge issues the data hardening command to a solid state disk. In response to the data hardening command, data stored on the solid state disk is hardened. The hardening comprises writing data in volatile memory to non-volatile memory. The data that is hardened comprises user data and protected data. The data hardening command optionally comprises one or more of a flush cache command, a sleep command, and a standby immediate command.