Computer system and method for booting up the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsIn-soo Kim, Kyung-young Kim
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Abstract
A computer system with a main memory is equipped with an HDD that has a disk and a driving motor driving the disk, a non-volatile storage unit provided in the HDD storing therein a booting program of an operating system, and a control unit reading out the booting program stored in the non-volatile storage unit and loading the booting program onto the main memory before the driving motor reaches a normal speed as power is supplied to the computer system. With this configuration, there is provided a computer system capable of reducing the booting time of the HDD.
Claims19
A computer system, comprising:
- a main memory;
- and
- a disk drive in communication with the main memory and comprising:
- a driving motor driving a disk of the disk drive;
- a non-volatile storage unit storing a booting program of an operating system;
- and
- a control unit reading the booting program stored in the non-volatile storage unit and loading the booting program onto the main memory before the driving motor reaches a normal speed as power is supplied to the computer system.
A method of booting up a computer system, comprising:
- reading a booting program of an operating system from a disk of the disk drive;
- storing the booting program in a predetermined storage unit in the disk drive when installing an operating system on the disk of the disk drive;
- reading the stored booting program and loading the booting program onto a main memory of the computer system before a driving motor of the disk drive reaches a normal speed as power is supplied to the computer system;
- and
- booting up the computer system with the booting program loaded onto the main memory.
A computer system, comprising:
- a main memory;
- and
- a disk drive in communication with the main memory and comprising:
- a driving motor driving a disk of the disk drive;
- a storage unit storing a booting program of the computer system;
- and
- a control unit loading the booting program stored in the storage unit into the main memory before the driving motor reaches abnormal speed when power is supplied to the computer system.
A computer hard disk drive having a disk, comprising:
- a driving motor driving the disk;
- a storage unit storing a booting program of a computer system controlling the disk drive;
- a controller in communication with the computer system and transmitting the booting program to the computer system before the driving motor reaches a normal speed when power is supplied to the computer system.
A controller controlling a computer-system hard disk drive having a disk and in communication with other components of the computer system, the controller storing a process of:
- storing a booting program in a memory in the hard disk drive;
- and
- loading the booting program into a main memory of the computer system before a driving motor driving the disk of the hard disk drive reaches a normal speed as power is supplied to the computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.