Patent ID: 7082544

Claim:
A method of controlling operation of an optical disk drive in a computer device, the computer device including a system controller coupled to the optical disk drive via an IDE bus, a processor coupled to the system controller, a power managing controller coupled to the processor and the system controller and operable in a normal mode, where electric power is supplied to the processor and the system controller, and a suspend mode, where electric power to at least one of the processor and the system controller is disrupted, a keyboard controller coupled to the system controller and the power managing controller and further coupled to the optical disk drive via a serial bus, and a control key set coupled to the keyboard controller, said method comprising: when the power managing controller operates in the suspend mode, enabling the keyboard controller to generate a control signal in accordance with operation of the control key set and received directly by the optical disk drive via the serial bus for controlling operation of the optical disk drive.