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Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Li Zhao Ma, Shanghai, CN;

Rong Yuan, Shanghai, CN;

Zhi Min Dong, Shanghai, CN;

Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Jian Gang Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4406 (2013.01);
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.


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