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| 20090172246 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INITIALIZATION THEREOF - A host may initialize itself faster by enabling an associated storage device to respond to host access commands under specified conditions before the storage device has completed its own initialization. Embodiments of the invention include a storage device, a controller, a method of servicing commands, and a method of using a host that sends access commands to a storage device. Access commands to a flash memory use logical addresses to reference the memory contents. A controller translates the logical addresses to physical addresses using a mapping table that the controller constructs in volatile memory during initialization based on data retrieved from the flash memory. An access command satisfying a predefined condition is serviced before the controller completes the construction of the mapping table. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172286 | Method And System For Balancing Host Write Operations And Cache Flushing - A method and system for balancing host write operations and cache flushing is disclosed. The method may include steps of determining an available capacity in a cache storage portion of a self-caching storage device, determining a ratio of cache flushing steps to host write commands if the available capacity is below a desired threshold and interleaving cache flushing steps with host write commands to achieve the ratio. The cache flushing steps may be executed by maintaining a storage device busy status after executing a host write command and utilizing this additional time to copy a portion of the data from the cache storage into the main storage. The system may include a cache storage, a main storage and a controller configured to determine and execute a ratio of cache flushing steps to host write commands by executing cache flushing steps while maintaining a busy status after a host write command. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20110063918 | IDENTIFYING AT-RISK DATA IN NON-VOLATILE STORAGE - The non-volatile storage system predicts which blocks (or other units of storage) will become bad based on performance data. User data in those blocks predicted to become bad can be re-programmed to other blocks, and the blocks predicted to become bad can be removed from further use. | 03-17-2011 |
