WO1994019746B1 - Flash solid state drive emulating a disk drive to processing elements - Google Patents
Flash solid state drive emulating a disk drive to processing elementsInfo
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Abstract
A flash solid state drive, having a flash solid state memory (27) compatible with ATA/IDE Interface standards to be connected to a host for storing or retrieving sectors of data, where each sector contains 512 bytes of data, each sector is addressed by a cylinder, head and sector number (CHS) and said host provides for a read or write operation, said solid state memory (27) having stored therein a header for each CHS address that can be issued by said host, said header having indicia identifying the data block and indicating where the data for said data block is stored in said solid state memory (27), said flash solid state device comprising a translation means (19) for translating said CHS address into a logic sector number LSN for identifying sectors in said flash solid state drive and a control means (17 and 20) for converting said sectors received from the host into a variable length sector to be stored in said flash solid state memory (27).
Claims
1. A solid state drive having a solid state memory connected to a host for receiving and sending fixed length data blocks to and from the host, said solid state drive comprising: control means for converting said fixed length data blocks received from the host into a variable length data blocks to be stored in said solid state memory as data blocks of nonuniform length.
2. The solid state drive of Claim 1 wherein said control means comprises: compression means for compressing said fixed length data block received from the host to form a compressed data block of a nonuniform length; storing means for storing said compressed data in said solid state memory as data blocks of nonuniform length and for retrieving data blocks of nonuniform length from said solid state memory; and decompression means for decompressing a said compressed data block read from said solid state memory to recover said received data block as received from the host.
3. The solid state drive of Claim 1 wherein said control means further comprises: selection means for controlling whether said fixed length data blocks received from the host is to be stored as a fixed length data block or as a variable length data block in said solid state memory; and marking means for generating indicia to be stored with said data block indicating whether that said data block was stored as a fixed length or variable length data block. - 49 -
4. The solid state drive of Claim 1 wherein said solid state memory further comprises: translation means for translating said drive address into a block number for identifying a data block within said solid state drive.
5. A flash solid state drive, having a flash solid state memory compatible with ATA/IDE Interface standards to be connected to a host for storing or retrieving sectors of data, where each sector contains 512 bytes of data, each sector is addressed by a cylinder, head and sector number CHS and said host provides for a read operation the number of sectors to be retrieved, the CHS for each sector to be retrieved and for a write operation the number of sectors to be stored, the CHS for each sector to be stored and the data for the sectors to be stored, said solid state memory having stored therein a header for each CHS address that can be issued by said host said header having indicia identifying the data block and indicating where the data for said data block is stored in said solid state memory, said flash solid state device comprising: translation means for translating said CHS address into a logic sector number LSN for identifying sectors in said flash solid state drive; and control means for converting said fixed length sectors received from the host into variable length sectors to be stored in said flash solid state memory as sectors of nonuniform length. - 50 -
6. The flash solid state drive of Claim 5 wherein said control means further comprises: compression means for compressing said fixed length sector received from the host to form a compressed sector of a non defined length; storage means for storing said compressed sector being stored in said flash solid state memory as compressed sectors of nonuniform length and for retrieving compressed data sectors of nonuniform length from said flash solid state memory; and decompression means for decompressing a said compressed sector read from said flash solid state memory to recover said received sector from said compressed sector.
7. The flash solid state drive of Claim 5 wherein said control means further comprises: selection means for controlling whether said fixed length sector received from the host is to be stored as a fixed length sector or as a variable length sector in said flash solid state memory; and marking means for generating indicia to be stored with each said sector indicating whether said sector was stored as a fixed length or variable length sector.
8. The solid state drive of Claim 5 further comprising: ECC generating means for generating ECC data for each fixed and variable length sector prior to said sector being stored in said flash solid state memory, said ECC data being stored with said sector generating said ECC data in said flash solid state memory; ECC detection means for determining if a sector read from said flash solid state memory was in error; and error correcting means for correcting the error detected by said ECC detection. - 51 -
9. The flash solid state drive of Claim 6 further comprising: size detector for generating a first signal if the number of bytes of compressed data for a sector after compression by said compressor means is greater than 512 bytes of data; second control means in response to said first signal for routing said compressed sector giving rise to said first signal through said decompression means to recover the uncompressed sector such that said uncompressed sector will be stored as a fixed length sector in said flash solid state memory.
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