| US 7,490,357 B2 | ||
| Data protection in data storage system | ||
| Sung-Youn Cho, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Seung-Youl Jeong, Hwaseong-Si (Korea, Republic of); Jong-Lak Park, Suwon-Si (Korea, Republic of); and Hak-Yeol Sohn, Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/909,686. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2003-0060206 (KR), filed on Aug. 29, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0047594 A1, Mar. 03, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 726—29 [713/193] | 28 Claims |

| 1. A method of protecting data within a data storage system, comprising:
determining whether a security enable command is input to a controller from a host;
moving initialization data from a first area of a disk to a second area of the disk when the security enable command is input,
wherein a location of the second area of the disk is randomly generated; and
erasing the initialization data from the first area of the disk when the security enable command is input.
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