Patent ID: 9266342
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: B41J,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A storage device comprising: a control unit that performs a process of communicating with a host apparatus which is connected to the storage device through a bus; a storage unit into which data transmitted from the host apparatus are written; a storage control unit that performs access control on the storage unit, wherein the control unit is configured to receive an ID information item from the host apparatus after an end of a period of writing data from the host apparatus to m storage devices of a plurality of the storage devices connected to the bus, m being an integer equal to or greater than 1, and return an acknowledgement to the host apparatus if the data transmitted from the host apparatus have been successfully written to the storage unit of the storage; and a reset terminal, wherein the control unit is configured to receive one of m ID information items corresponding to the m storage devices and return the acknowledgement to the host apparatus when the received one of the ID information items matches an ID information item of the storage device in each of first through m-th reset cancellation periods, m being an integer equal to or greater than 2, in which a reset signal input to the reset terminal from the host apparatus is at a level indicating that reset is cancelled.