Method of swapping auxiliary storage devices using a suspend mode

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention has been made in an effort to solve the above problems.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of performing a warm swap of auxiliary storage devices using a suspend mode and a resume mode such that the computer need not be turned off for the swapping of auxiliary storage devices, nor do the programs in use need to be exited.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method of swapping auxiliary storage devices using a suspend mode.
The method includes the steps of: determining if a suspend mode command was given, and, if so, determining if a specific device is mounted in a bay of a computer and setting an event flag if a specific device is mounted in the bay of the computer, and after storing an ID of the specific device, executing the suspend mode, or storing a default value if a specific device is not mounted in the bay of the computer and executing the suspend mode.
In the method noted above, the suspend mode enables the swapping of auxiliary storage devices in the bay of the computer while maintaining the same in an ON state and temporarily suspending all programs in use.
According to a feature of the present invention, the method further includes the steps of: determining if a resume mode command was given, and, if so, determining if the device in the bay of the computer was swapped; setting an event flag for a plug-and-play function if the device in the computer was swapped, and executing the resume mode, or directly executing the resume mode if the device in the computer was not swapped; and determining if the event flag was set, and, if so, changing an environment of an operating system and continuing the resume mode, or if the event flag was not set, directly continuing the resume mode.