Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Automatic control of a recorder mechanism
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-27
2008-08-12
Tzeng, Fred (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Automatic control of a recorder mechanism
Reexamination Certificate
active
07411757
ABSTRACT:
A hybrid disk drive, i.e., a disk drive with two types of permanent storage media (conventional disk media and nonvolatile memory, such as flash memory), uses its nonvolatile memory in operational modes other than the power-save or “standby” mode wherein the disks are spun down. In a first additional mode, called a “performance” mode, one or more blocks of write data are destaged from volatile memory (the disk drive's write cache) and written to the disk and simultaneously one or more data blocks of write data are destaged from the volatile memory and written to the nonvolatile memory. In a second additional mode, called a “harsh-environment” mode, the disk drive includes one or more environmental sensors, such as temperature and humidity sensors, and the nonvolatile memory temporarily replaces the disks as the permanent storage media. In a third additional mode, called a “write-inhibit” mode, the disk drive includes one or more write-inhibit detectors, such as a shock sensor for detecting disturbances and vibrations to the disk drive. In write-inhibit mode, if the write-inhibit signal is on then the write data is written from the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory instead of to the disks.
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Chu Frank R.
New Richard M. H.
Ng Spencer W.
Tsunoda Motoyasu
Berthold Thomas R.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Tzeng Fred
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