Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – General processing of a digital signal – Data in specific format
Patent
1987-06-29
1989-03-21
Canney, Vincent P.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
General processing of a digital signal
Data in specific format
369 59, G11B 509, H04N 576
Patent
active
048149039
ABSTRACT:
A data recorder, preferably of the magnetooptic type, employs a rotating record storage disk. The record storage disk has a track starting primary data storing sector circumferentially adjacent to the track starting sector or a small plurality of alternate data storing sectors which are not addressable directly by mechanisms outside of the recorder as are the primary recording sectors. Whenever a one of the primary sectors in a given track is found to be defective, then one of the alternate sectors in that same track receives data from a one of the primary storing records of sectors in the same track. A small number of alternate sectors are selected to extend circumferentially for creating an elapsed scan time over the element of sectors not less than the elapsed time required for the recorder to switch from scanning one track to scanning an adjacent one of the tracks. In a magnetooptic recorder, the elapsed time selected for scanning the small plurality of alternate sectors is also not less than the time to reverse the magnetic biasing field for erasing and recording on the disk. Alternate sectors provide both for alternate data storage and for the preparatory steps of track jumping or switching and magnetic field bias reversal. Second alternate ones of the tracks are selected in the event all of the alternate sectors in a given track are filled with data from defective ones of the primary sectors in the same track as the alternate sectors.
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Copending Commonly Assigned Application for U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 030,393 filed Mar. 26, 1987 (TU985007).
Kulakowski John E.
Means Rodney J.
Canney Vincent P.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Somermeyer H. F.
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