Patent ID: 8225022

Claim:
A method for enabling electronic representation of a removable or fixed data storage device comprising flash memory units as an operating system standard disk directly accessible to a main bus of a computing appliance having a peripheral component interface connector and a motherboard, comprising the steps of: (a) connecting the flash memory units together both in series and in parallel; (b) providing an integrated controller directly on the device, the integrated controller comprising a peripheral component interface (PCI) ported to a series-parallel PCIFLASH memory controller on the device, the memory controller enabled to control host access to the flash memory units either in series, in parallel, or both; (c) providing disk control registers and or bus control registers including appropriate disk and or bus protocols and commands in the peripheral component interface on the device; and (d) connecting the device carrying the integrated controller, including the PCI, to the peripheral component interface connector of the computing appliance wherein the computing appliance immediately recognizes the device as a disk without input from a disk controller, disk controller interface, disk channel, USB controller/channel interface and actual hard disk channel interface.