Memory drive that can be operated like optical disk drive and method for virtualizing memory drive as optical disk drive
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorIn Chang Yang
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a memory drive that can be virtualized as an optical disk drive and a virtualizing method thereof. One embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for virtualizing a memory drive as an optical disk drive, the memory drive comprising a storage memory and a storage memory controller, which reads or writes data from and to the storage memory. Therefore, according to one embodiment of the present invention, a solid-state which comprises a flash memory and a flash memory controller can be used like an optical disk.
Claims30
A memory drive capable of being virtualized as an optical disk drive, the memory drive comprising a storage memory and a storage memory controller for writing data to the storage memory,
- wherein the storage memory controller writes or reads data to or from the storage memory based on a unit of writing/reading in accordance with an optical disk drive standard.
A method of virtualizing a memory drive as an optical disk drive, the memory drive including a storage memory and a storage memory controller that writes data to the storage memory, the method comprising the steps of:
- transmitting attribute information related to the data writability of the memory drive in response to a device recognition request from a host;
- and
- writing or reading data to or from the storage memory based on a unit of writing/reading in accordance with an optical disk drive standard in response to a write/read operation request from the host according to the attribute information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.