Patent ID: 7921243

Claim:
A buffer control system for a hard disk drive (HDD), the buffer control system comprising: a buffer memory configured to store data being transferred between a first host and the HDD; a command module configured to receive first channel data from a first direct memory access (DMA) channel of the first host, the first channel data having a first data format, receive second channel data from a second DMA channel of the first host, the second channel data having a second data format, wherein the first channel data and the second channel data correspond to the data being transferred between the first host and the HDD, and wherein the first data format and the second data format are different data formats, and convert the first channel data and the second channel data to respective data packets, each of the data packets having a same third data format that is different than each of the first data format and the second data format, the third format being associated with the buffer memory; and a burst module to selectively transmit the data packets having the third data format to the buffer memory in a single write burst.