Patent ID: 6708251
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive connectable to a host system that includes an audiovisual source, the disk drive comprising:a disk; a buffer memory; an audiovisual interface adapted to be coupled to the audiovisual source in the host system, the audiovisual interface responsive to first data from the audiovisual source to provide audiovisual data; a host command interface separately operable from the audiovisual interface, the host command interface adapted to be coupled to the host system and to receive host commands from the host system; and a disk controller coupled to the audiovisual interface, the host command interface, the disk, and the buffer memory, the disk controller responsive to the host commands to: selectively allocate at least a portion of the buffer memory for the audiovisual data, selectively transfer the audiovisual data from the audiovisual interface to the buffer memory, and selectively transfer the audiovisual data from the buffer memory to the disk to be stored.