Disk drive using virtual hands for continuous access and executi

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1993-05-04

1997-12-09

Psitos, Aristotelis M.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General recording or reproducing

Signal switching

360 48, 360 55, 386 70, 386125, 369 32, G11B 1512

Patent

active

056966407

ABSTRACT:
A disk drive such as a magnetic disk drive includes a command-receiving mechanism for receiving a command from a host device, by which access operations for consecutive sectors are requested, a access-designating mechanism for designating continuous-access operations in the form of jump-access operations with respect to the sectors of at least one disk medium, when the command is sent from the command-receiving mechanism and a continuous-access executing mechanism for executing the continuous-access operations at every other sector, e.g., each odd sector or each even sector, by utilizing the same head.
Preferably, the access-designating mechanism includes a circuit for conversion of the width of data, in which a process for conversion is executed, between the width of the data that are handled in the command-receiving mechanism and the width of the data that are handled in the continuous-access executing mechanism so that the continuous-access operations at every other sector location can be realized.

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