Disk drive with an adjustable motor and method for adjusting rotation speed of the motor
AssigneeASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
InventorsSheng Lai, An-Pang Lin
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Abstract
A method for adjusting rotation speed of a driving motor in a disk drive prior to power on of a computer, includes: (i) inputting an external signal into the disk drive; (ii) converting the external signal into a predetermined value in such a manner to replace a default value stored within a memory device by the predetermined value such that the memory device is eventually stored with the predetermined value; and (iii) rotating the driving motor according to the predetermined value.
Claims10
A method for adjusting a rotation speed of a driving motor in a disk drive as a computer booting process is activated, at least comprising the steps of:
- (a) inputting an external signal into the disk drive as the computer booting process is activated;
- (b) converting said external signal into a predetermined value in such a manner to replace a default value stored within a memory device by said predetermined value such that said memory device is eventually stored with said predetermined value, wherein said preset and predetermined values are different from each other;
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- (c) adjusting the rotation speed of the driving motor according to said predetermined value.
A disk drive comprising:
- a driving motor for driving an inserted optical disk;
- an external module for generating an external signal;
- a memory device stored with a default value;
- a converter linked to said external module and said memory device, and capable of converting said external signal inputted from said external module into a predetermined value different from said default value in such a manner to replace said default value by said predetermined value such that said memory device is eventually stored with said predetermined value;
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- a control unit for adjusting a rotation speed of the driving motor according to said predetermined value;
- wherein said converter is activated when the disk drive is booting and is de-activated after detecting and converting said external signal into said predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.