Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Information location or remote operator actuated control – Selective addressing of storage medium
Patent
1992-11-12
1994-05-24
Pascal, Robert J.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Information location or remote operator actuated control
Selective addressing of storage medium
369 48, 3692753, G11B 1722
Patent
active
053155688
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method are provided to increase the capacity of spiral track data storage disks while improving the reliability of access to sectors on the disk. In one embodiment, employed when logical tracks on an optical disk are grouped into concentric bands, previously unusable sectors immediately following a band boundary can be reliably accessed. In accordance with this embodiment, when the target sector is, for example, the first sector of band N and a laser beam from a read head lands on a sector in the previous band N-1, the clock governing the data transfer rate is set to the frequency of the band N-1 and a sector in that band is detected and identified. Based upon the period of sectors in the band N-1, a delay interval is computed which ends when the last sector in the band N-1 rotates past the laser beam. Sector mark detection is disabled during the delay interval and the clock frequency changed to that of band N. Sector mark detection is re-enabled at the end of the delay, the band boundary passes, and the target sector can be detected and accessed. The present invention is also applicable when the target sector is not the first sector in a band as well as when the sector on which the laser beam lands is in the same band as the target sector.
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Dente James J.
Jaquette Glen A.
Williams William C.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Neyzari Ali
Pascal Robert J.
Shifrin D. A.
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