Local bus interface

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to overcome the problems in the prior art identified above.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an interface connected directly to the local bus of the PC and directly to one or more hard disk drives for high speed data transfer.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an interface between a local bus of a given width and one or more data storage devices having data ports of a width smaller than the local bus data width, whereby the interface divides the data from the local bus and sends it to one or more disk drives for a faster data transfer.
It is yet a further object of this invention to provide an interface between a PC local bus and one or more hard disk drives where the interface interleaves data from two or more hard disk drives to exploit the full data bus width of the local bus.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide an interface as described above that is transparent to the application software running on the PC.
It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide an interface as described above that is connected to hard disk drives using standard disk drive interfaces, such as IDE.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an interface as described above having the further capability of initializing the disk drives sector size based on the number of drives connected to the interface.
It is a further object of the invention to provide an interface as described above that can be connected to a number of local bus specifications including the VL-Bus.
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and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus.