Soft error correction for a data storage mechanism

Details Soft error correction for a data storage mechanism Soft error correction for a data storage mechanism

2007-06-19

2011-12-27

Baker, Stephen (Department: 2112)

Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

Pulse or data error handling

Digital data error correction

C714S769000

Reexamination Certificate

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08086935

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method are disclosed for correcting errors in data obtained from read operations on a storage medium. Errors that occur in a minority of read operations for the data are corrected by a voting technique. The data may then be processed with error correcting code to correct errors that occur in a majority of read operations.

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