Patent ID: 8433847

Claim:
A memory drive capable of being virtualized as an optical disk drive, the memory drive comprising a storage memory and a storage memory controller for writing data to the storage memory, wherein the storage memory controller writes or reads data to or from the storage memory based on a unit of writing/reading in accordance with an optical disk drive standard, wherein the storage memory controller includes: a sector manager for managing a unit of writing/reading of the storage memory based on a unit of writing/reading in accordance with the optical disk drive standard, an attribute manager for controlling the data writability of the memory drive and transmitting attribute information related to the data writability of the memory drive to a host, and a write/read controller for writing or reading data to or from the memory drive based on the unit of writing/reading set by the sector manager in response to a write/read operation request from the host according to the attribute information, wherein the attribute manager assigns an attribute selected from the group consisting of a read-only memory (ROM) disk drive, a recordable disk drive, a rewritable disk drive, and a random access memory (RAM) disk drive to the memory drive and controls the data writability of the memory drive according to the assigned attribute, and wherein if the attribute assigned to the memory drive is the RAM, each of pages that constitute the storage memory include a hidden area in which boot data in accordance with the optical disk drive standard is stored and a real area in which the boot data stored in the hidden area is loaded.