Patent ID: 7047357

Claim:
A system comprising: a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) to transmit a system request that includes a sector bit string, a head bit string, a track bit string and a driver bit; a system bus coupled to said BIOS; an integrated drive electronics (IDE) interface coupled to said system bus that communicates directly with said BIOS via said system bus; a striping controller coupled to said IDE interface; a first disk drive including first IDE electronics, said striping controller coupled to said first IDE electronics; and a second disk drive including second IDE electronics, said striping controller coupled to said second IDE electronics, said first and said second IDE electronics each having data separator electronics, data formatting electronics and head positioning electronics; wherein the data written to and read from the first and second disk drives is interleaved by mapping bits of the system request to the first and second disk drives so that even sectors are accessed on the first disk drive and odd sectors are accessed on the second disk drive and a least significant bit of the sector string of the system request is mapped to a drive select bit of the first disk drive.