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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Li Zhao Ma, Shanghai, CN;
Rong Yuan, Shanghai, CN;
Zhi Min Dong, Shanghai, CN;
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Jian Gang Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A method for booting to an operating system stored on a solid state drive. The method comprises the steps of (A) determining if a boot list has one or more entries, (B) pre-reading one or more logical block addresses of each of the entries from the boot list, (C) receiving a command from a host, (D) reading the command from a memory internal to the solid state drive if the command is in a cache area of the pre-read logical block addresses and (E) reading the command from a main portion of the solid state drive if the command is not in the cache.