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G06F 13/38 (2006.01) G06F 1/32 (2006.01) G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2140582
An SCSI controller having a mechanism for receiving a power down request indicating that the SCSI disk drives should be spun down. Preferably, the SCSI controller has an input for receiving a power down request signal. The SCSI controller monitors activity on the SCSI bus and asserts a signal indicative thereof to power management logic. The power management logic monitors the resources of the computer system and generates a system interrupt and the power down signal to initiate a power down mode when the computer system is determined to be idle. The CPU receives the system interrupt to perform traditional power down sequences. The SCSI controller receives the power down signal and generates a SCSI interrupt. The CPU also receives the SCSI interrupt and executes an SCSI device driver. The SCSI device driver determines that power down mode is being initiated, and sends spin down request commands to the SCSI controller for each SCSI drive. The SCSI controller powers down each of the SCSI devices in response. Any subsequent activity requiring access to any SCSI drive is detected by interrupt calls to the SCSI device driver, which then sends spin up requests to the SCSI controller, if necessary.
Compaq Computer Corporation
Finlayson & Singlehurst
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