Data recovery in a disc drive with redundant sync data blocks

Details Data recovery in a disc drive with redundant sync data blocks Data recovery in a disc drive with redundant sync data blocks

1998-03-09

2000-08-01

Kim, W. Chris

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General processing of a digital signal

Data clocking

G11B 509

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06097561&

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving data recovery operations in a disc drive employing a redundant sync data block format. The disc drive includes a rotatable disc and a controllably positionable head which is used to store user data in a plurality of data blocks on tracks of the disc. Each data block includes a user data field to store user data, a first sync field and a redundant, second sync field, the sync fields storing first and second sync words, respectively, which establish symbol boundaries used by a read channel of the disc drive. User data are recovered from a selected data block by initiating a delay of selected duration during which a first portion of the selected data block passes proximate the head, allowing the second, remaining portion of the selected data block to be read at the completion of the delay. Data can thus be recovered in the presence of mis-sync errors, wherein a selected sync word is detected early or late by one or more bits, as well as from non-contiguous data blocks that are split into two fragments to accommodate a coincident servo block.

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