The present invention discloses a management method of magnetic
disk array buffer memory for reading / writing request. The
management process for reading request includes the following steps: when the reading request of main
machine is reached, judging that the reading request data is stored in the magnetic
disk array buffer memory or not, if said reading request data is stored in said magnetic
disk array buffer memory, obtaining reading request data from said magnetic disk array buffer memory and returning said reading request data to main
machine, otherwise, obtaining reading request data from magnetic disk, returning it to main
machine and executing step b 1; b 1 includes the following contents; judging that in the magnetic disk array buffer memory a
free field is existed or not, if said
free field is existed, storing reading request data in said
free field, otherwise, executing step C 1; step C 1 includes the following contents; selecting reading data block in magnetic disk array buffer memory, storing the reading request data in position place of selected reading data block. For writing request of main machine said invention adopts similar method to make management.