Methods for eliminating intermediate bussing and bridging requirements between a solid state memory device with PCI controller and a main system bus

A method for enabling electronic representation of a removable or fixed data storage device comprising flash memory units as an operating system standard disk directly accessible to a main bus of a computing appliance having a peripheral component interface connector and a motherboard, comprising the steps of:

• (a) connecting the flash memory units together both in series and in parallel;
• (b) providing an integrated controller directly on the device, the integrated controller comprising a peripheral component interface (PCI) ported to a series-parallel PCIFLASH memory controller on the device, the memory controller enabled to control host access to the flash memory units either in series, in parallel, or both;
• (c) providing disk control registers and or bus control registers including appropriate disk and or bus protocols and commands in the peripheral component interface on the device;
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• (d) connecting the device carrying the integrated controller, including the PCI, to the peripheral component interface connector of the computing appliance wherein the computing appliance immediately recognizes the device as a disk without input from a disk controller, disk controller interface, disk channel, USB controller/channel interface and actual hard disk channel interface.