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Method and apparatus for improved peripheral bus utilization

  • US 5,968,147 A
  • Filed: 09/26/1997
  • Issued: 10/19/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for sharing an I/O bus connection by peripheral devices, the peripheral devices including a first CD-R peripheral device that is connected to the I/O bus connection, and a second peripheral device that is connected to the I/O bus connection, the I/O bus being an IDE/ATAPI bus connection, the first CD-R peripheral device and the second peripheral device being IDE/ATAPI devices, comprising:

  • transferring data to a drive buffer that is in the first CD-R peripheral device, the transferring being configured to continue until the drive buffer has reached a full state;

    performing a pre-write calibration of the first CD-R peripheral device after the drive buffer has reached the full state;

    commencing a writing of a portion of the data contained in the drive buffer to a compact disc, such that the first data received by the drive buffer is written first; and

    releasing the I/O bus connection by placing a write thread of the first CD-R peripheral device in a sleep mode but still continuing the writing of the portion of data contained in the drive buffer, such that when the write thread of the first CD-R peripheral device is in the sleep mode the 1/0 bus connection is made available to the second peripheral device while the first CD-R peripheral device is not transferring data to the drive buffer.

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