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US 2007/0168604 A1Published application
Information recording apparatus and method for controlling the same
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYoriharu Takai, Kenji Yoshida
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an information recording apparatus includes an input which receives a command, a disk-like recording medium, a non-volatile memory serving as a cache memory for the disk-like recording medium, and a control unit for flashing information recorded in the non-volatile memory to the disk-like recording medium in accordance with a flash command input into the input so as to make a vacant region inside the non-volatile memory.
Claims11
An information recording apparatus comprising:
- an input configured to receive a command;
- a disk-like recording medium;
- a non-volatile memory configured to serve as a cache memory for the disk-like recording medium;
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- a control unit configured to write information in the non-volatile memory in accordance with a writing command input into the input, to record the information recorded in the non-volatile memory in the disk-like recording medium at a predetermined timing, and to flash the information recorded in the non-volatile memory to the disk-like recording medium in accordance with a flash command input into the input so as to make a vacant region inside the non-volatile memory.
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A host apparatus comprising:
- with respect to an information recording apparatus including an input configured to receive a command, a disk-like recording medium, a non-volatile memory configured to serve as a cache memory for the disk-like recording medium, and a control unit configured to write information in the non-volatile memory in accordance with a writing command input into the input and to record the information recorded in the non-volatile memory in the disk-like recording medium at a predetermined timing,
- a processor configured to issue a flash command which allows the control unit to flash the information recorded in the non-volatile memory to the disk-like recording medium so as to make a vacant region inside the non-volatile memory.
A method for controlling an information recording apparatus comprising:
- a first block of receiving a command;
- a second block of writing information in a non-volatile memory serving as a cache memory for a disk-like recording medium in accordance with a writing command input in the first block;
- a third block of recording the information recorded in the non-volatile memory in the second block in the disk-like recording medium at a predetermined timing;
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- a fourth block of flashing the information recorded in the non-volatile memory to the disk-like recording medium in accordance with a flash command input in the first block, so as to make a vacant region inside the non-volatile memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.