Magnetic disk drive improved in a reliability of data retrieve

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2006-09-19

2006-09-19

Young, Wayne (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General processing of a digital signal

Data verification

C360S031000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07110203

ABSTRACT:
A magnetic disk drive improved in reliability of data retrieve. This invention prevents the drive from decoding already-written old data. The failure decoding is caused by a deviation in a write operation, by a malfunction of a writing head and so on. When data in a sector is renewed, the sector's location and renewal frequency information are saved not only in the sector of the disk media but also in a temporary memory. When the magnetic disk drive is in an idle mode, those renewal information written in the sector and stored in the temporary memory, are checked. If both renewal information match, the data is regarded “not old” and the information about the sector in the temporary memory is deleted. In the deleting operation, check mark information indicating that the written data has been checked is written in the sector of the magnetic disk medium.

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