Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with automatic SATA receiver equalization margin determination and setting, are disclosed. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a BIOS configured to determine, during POST, whether a device is attached to one of the SATA ports, and on determination that a device is attached to one of the SATA ports, further determine whether a receiver equalization margin has been set for the device. Additionally, the BIOS may be configured to perform a DTLE training to dynamically determine and set the receiver equalization margin for the device, on determination that a receiver equalization margin has not been set for the device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with automatic SATA receiver equalization margin determination and setting, are disclosed. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a BIOS configured to determine, during POST, whether a device is attached to one of the SATA ports, and on determination that a device is attached to one of the SATA ports, further determine whether a receiver equalization margin has been set for the device. Additionally, the BIOS may be configured to perform a DTLE training to dynamically determine and set the receiver equalization margin for the device, on determination that a receiver equalization margin has not been set for the device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Multiple operational contexts are called up from a Standby power state of a computing device. The operational contexts run on one or more operating systems of the computing device. When a desired operational context is chosen, such as by activation through a user initiated act or hot key, the operating system supporting the desired operational context is booted up from the Standby power state.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method to write a first block group of multiple data blocks of a write request into a first disk in a first time period, and write a second block group of the multiple data blocks into the second disk in the first time period. Later a flip write process may be performed to write the first and second block groups into the other disk. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A system and a method for transmitting packets of data with a network processor in a variety of formats are disclosed. A sub-processor processes a set of data for transmission by a transmit engine across a transmission medium. The transmit engine receives the data set from the sub-processor through a transmit memory buffer. Information about the data set is stored with control information in a random access memory. The transmission speed is adjustable by the sub-processor. A receive engine receives data packets from the transmission medium and stores the data packets in a receive memory buffer. The sub-processor dumps the data into a file, either on command of the user or as determined by a program run on the sub-processor. Statistical data about the transmission and reception are stored in a statistic data memory buffer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to improving the efficiency of packet enqueue, drop or mark processing in networks. Operations involved in computing an average queue size for making enqueue, drop or mark decisions utilize binary shift operations for computational efficiency. Operations used in computing a probability value used in making drop or mark decisions are also made more efficient.