Appeal No. 1999-2412
Application No. 08/553,024
performed by disassembling the device in order to replace the expansion BIOS ROM, the
present invention stores the loadable device driver in the memory storage of the mass
memory storage device so that the loadable device driver may be easily updated by
simply transferring an updated version of the loadable device driver into the mass memory
storage of the mass memory storage device.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a computer system including a host computer which is operated
using a particular operating system and a system BIOS, the computer
system having system RAM associated with the host computer and a mass
memory storage peripheral computer device which is connected to the host
computer using a peripheral bus in which relocatable expansion BIOS
location addresses are allowed, an arrangement for allowing the host
computer to operate the mass memory storage peripheral computer device,
the arrangement comprising:
a) a loadable device driver including data address translating
means for translating data address information communicated between the
operating system and the mass memory storage peripheral computer
device; and
b) means for loading the loadable device driver into the system
RAM during the start-up of the system for use during the operation of the
system
(i) such that the loadable device driver is in communication
with the operating system in a way which does not require the system BIOS,
any protocol translation, or any other type of data address translation
mechanism to be provided between the loadable device driver and the
operating system in order for the loadable device driver to communicate with
the operating system and
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