US 12,254,209 B1
Time bound partial format operation in a storage device
Lovish Singla, Bangalore (IN); Ramkumar Ramamurthy, Bangalore (IN); and Shaheed Nehal A, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Sandisk Technologies, LLC, Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed by WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/383,854.
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0652 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0292 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A storage device performs a format operation for host devices using different format times and commands configurations, the storage device comprises:
a memory device to store data; and
a controller to receive an erase command from a host device, determine a format time and a chunk size associated with data in the erase command, execute a format operation scheme to perform an erase operation on the data in the erase command within the format time, and halt execution of the erase operation and return operation to the host device when the format time expires.