Seagate Technology Incorporated

Seagate Technologies, Inc.

Jay Allen Sheldon

Ryan James Goss

Ara Patapoutian

Nicholas Odin Lien

Embodiments herein provide for a controller that is operable to soft read a data bit a plurality of times, to generate a bit set for the data bit from the soft reads, to logically operate on the bit set, and to generate a Hamming weight for the data bit based on the logical operation. The Hamming weight has fewer bits than the bit set and is operable to correct the data bit.

Generating hamming weights for data

An unrecoverable error is determined when attempting to access data stored in a target memory unit of a storage medium of a data storage device. Access to neighboring memory units that are proximate to the target memory unit is controlled in response. The controlling of the access affects a temperature of the target memory unit over a period of time. After the period of time, access to the data is attempted from the target memory unit.

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Jay Allen Sheldon