Seagate Technology Incorporated

Paul Michael Wiggins

Timothy Richard Feldman

Jon David Trantham

Jonathan Williams Haines

Brett Alan Cook

Xiong Liu

Mark A Gaertner

Bruce Douglas Buch

Steven Scott Williams

Wenxiang Xie

Brian Thomas Edgar

Thomas V Spencer

Monty Aaron Forehand

Raye Abdoulie Sosseh

Josiah Natan Wernow

Gregory Paul Moller

Michael J C Toh

An apparatus may include a memory device, a memory controller, or both that can communicate via memory standard interfaces. However, the memory device may have physical memory that does not comply with the memory standard by itself. Disclosed herein are solutions that allow various non-standard types of memory, or emerging memory, to be utilized via a host, microprocessor, or memory controller that implements the interface standard. For example, by utilizing a command converter at the microprocessor and a tunneling register at the memory device, a microprocessor can send commands to the memory device by writing them to the tunneling register, which can then be processed at the memory device for operations to be performed with the non-standard or emerging memory.

Memory tunneling interface

Illustrative systems and methods disclosed herein may change or modify a seek during mid-seek for various reasons and may set seek speeds for various seeks to less than the maximum possible seek speed to, for example, facilitate seek target change or modifications mid-seek. For instance, the seek speeds for lower priority commands or commands at risk for deprioritization may be set to speeds less than the maximum possible seek speed.

Modifying seek operations mid-seek

A method includes adding a key version tag to an encryption key store that stores encryption keys. The key version tag is inserted into a data stream. The data stream including the key version tag is written to media. The data in the data stream is erased by scrambling the encryption keys and incrementing the key version tag in the encryption store by a digit. The data stream is replaced with a replacement data pattern when the key version tag stored in the encryption store and the key version tag located in the data stream mismatch.

Tracking of data erasures

A data storage device includes first and second controllers that independently and simultaneously process data from a recording medium. The first and second controllers each have respective first and second buffer managers coupled to respective first and second buffer memories. The first and second buffer managers are coupled to each other via an inter-controller data bus. The first controller is configured to receive a contiguous memory request for a block data transfer client of the first controller. A first part of the request is fulfilled from the first buffer memory via the first buffer manager, and a second part of the request is fulfilled from the second buffer memory via the second buffer manager communicating with the first buffer manager via the inter-controller data bus.

Storage drive with multiple controllers having interconnected buffer managers

Apparatus and method for managing a media cache through the monitoring of operational vibration of a data storage device. In some embodiments, a non-volatile media cache of the data storage device is partitioned into at least first and second zones having different data recording characteristics. Input data are received for storage in a non-volatile main memory of the data storage device. An amount of operational vibration associated with the data storage device is measured. The input data are stored in a selected one of the first or second zones of the media cache prior to transfer to the main memory responsive to a comparison of the measured amount of operational vibration to a predetermined operational vibration threshold.

Operational vibration compensation through media cache management

An exemplary method includes receiving a command for storing data to a plurality of data storage resources, storing the data in a set of buffer storage locations, defining a plurality of jobs for the command, each of the plurality of jobs having an associated data operation with at least one of the data storage resources, and reallocating a subset of the buffer storage locations that stored the data for a completed job prior to completion of at least one other job.

Data management in a data storage system

The present disclosure provides a method in a data storage system. The method includes defining a plurality of jobs for a command received from a host. Each of the plurality of jobs is associated with one or more of a plurality of data storage resources of the data storage system. The plurality of jobs have a defined order that is a function of addresses of data in the plurality of data storage resources. The method also includes issuing the plurality of jobs to the associated data storage resources and receiving information from the data storage resources for the plurality of jobs. The information is received by a controller of the data storage system for the jobs in an order that is different than the defined order. The method includes transmitting the received information to the host for the plurality of jobs in the defined order.

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Paul Michael Wiggins