Patent ID: 7900007

Claim:
A storage device which is connected to a host device via a bus and which stores and reads data based on a command from said host device, the storage device comprising: a memory that stores data received from said host device; a memory controller that controls at least one of data-reading from and data-writing to said memory; a command receiver that receives a sequence of commands issued from said host device and determines, each time that a command of the sequence of commands is received, whether the received command corresponds to a predetermined command, which is a part of a predetermined command sequence, the command receiver executing the command, only when it is determined that the received command corresponds to the predetermined command of the predetermined command sequence; a response transmitter that returns a response of the result of the execution of the command each time that it is determined that the received command corresponds to the predetermined command; and an access determiner that determines whether or not the sequence of commands received by said command receiver is the predetermined command sequence and accepts access to the memory from the host device when the received sequence of commands is the predetermined command sequence, the predetermined command sequence being a plurality of commands in a specific order that do not change data stored in the memory.