Patents Examined by Chistopher S. Chow
  • Patent number: 5890210
    Abstract: In this invention, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus and a command processing method of the magnetic disk apparatus in which the cache function can be effectively performed even in a case where read commands and write commands are alternately issued and the read or write command can be executed at high speed. An HDC includes a read address holding register in which an access starting address is set when a read command is issued from a host system and which holds an access address associated with the read command and a write address holding register in which an access starting address is set when a write command is issued from the host system and which holds an access address associated with the write command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shuichi Ishii, Yasuhiko Ichikawa