Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – General processing of a digital signal
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Wellington, Andrea (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
General processing of a digital signal
C360S051000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10619742
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for determining sector block sizes using existing controller signals has been disclosed. The invention detects a characteristic of a data channel gate signal indicating a length of data, determines the length of data based on the detection of the characteristic, and calculates the size of a last data block in the length of data based on the determined length.
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Lee Yuan Xing
Zeng Weining
Chambliss Bahner & Stophel
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Kapadia Varsha A.
Lynch David W.
Wellington Andrea
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