| 摘要 |
A magnetic disc control apparatus detects a near sequential I/O and pre-reads data from a magnetic disc drive into a cache memory. The control apparatus includes a near sequential I/O processor, which has an I/O history storage table for storing a transfer end address of I/O requested by a host computer, a near sequential I/O identifier for calculating an address difference between the transfer end address read out from this I/O history storage table and the current I/O transfer start address and identifying the I/O as a near sequential I/O if the address difference is within a predetermined value, and a pre-read executor for pre-reading data from the magnetic disc drive to the cache memory when a near sequential I/O is detected.
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