Patent ID: 8667242
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data access method, for writing data into a storage apparatus, wherein the storage apparatus has a storage unit, the storage unit has a plurality of physical blocks, a plurality of logical blocks mapped to the physical blocks are divided into at least a first partition, a storage property of the first partition is set as a write protect mode and the storage apparatus is coupleable to a host system having an operation system, the data access method comprising: transmitting a first command complied with a human interface device protocol from the host system to the storage apparatus via a mount point corresponding to the first partition through a human interface device path of the host system; determining whether the first command is received by the storage apparatus; setting the storage property of the first partition as a writable mode in response to the first command by the storage apparatus if the first command is received; if at least one built-in command of the operation system of the host system is generated to indicate to store first data into the first partition, transmitting a second command complied with a mass storage device protocol from the host system to the storage apparatus via the mount point corresponding to the first partition; and receiving the second command complied and writing the first data into the first partition in response to the second command by the storage apparatus.