Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Benhov Gmbh, LLC

Other

International Business Machines Corporation

Maxtor Corporation

Scott E Burton

Larry Joseph Koudele

Christopher J Squires

James Bowling French, Jr

George Christian Cope

Douglas I McCampbell

Asif F Gosla

Daniel J Wade

Eric B Smith

David Robison Hall

Lance R Carlson

Gregory B Thelin

Paul Edward Movall

Robert Morelli Fallone

Kevin Lee Kidney

Kenny T Coker

John Timothy O'Brien

Steven R Vasquez

Stephen R Cornaby

Kent D Prosch

Michael C Kutas

Chiranjeb Mondal

Curtis Adam Harper

Richard Curtis Cleavinger

John Houkal

Albert Monroe

Nelson W Gildenmeister

Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position heads proximate to a recording medium of the disks; and one or more processing devices. The processing devices are configured to detect a criterion for inserting padding on the recording medium proximate to data containers to be written to the recording medium, the containers configured for assigning logic blocks to the containers, the logic blocks configured to store data to be written in an interleaved pattern across sectors based on a distributed sector encoding scheme, wherein detecting the criterion comprises detecting a mismatch in size between at least a portion of a zone and an integer number of containers in which to write the at least a portion of the zone; and insert mapping indicators to a mapping to indicate padding blocks proximate to the containers.

Data storage device with data padding and safe and efficient alignment of data zones with data containers

Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising: one or more disks; a write mechanism configured to write data to disk surfaces of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices, which are configured to: encode, based on a distributed sector encoding scheme, data into a plurality of logic blocks of data, wherein the logic blocks of data comprise the data to be written being interleaved across a plurality of sectors; assign at least some of the logic blocks to a plurality of containers of two or more container sizes, the container sizes comprising a relatively larger container size and a relatively smaller container size; and output a write signal to the write mechanism to write the logic blocks in accordance with the assigning of the at least some of the logic blocks to the plurality of containers.

Data storage device with variable containers for logic blocks

Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator arm assembly comprising one or more heads, and configured to position the one or more heads proximate to disk surfaces of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to detect one or more physical defects on a recording medium; designate, in a mapping of the recording medium, the one or more physical defects for exclusion from being assigned to data containers, the data containers configured for assignment of a plurality of logic blocks to the data containers, the logic blocks configured to store the data to be written that are being interleaved across a plurality of sectors based on a distributed sector encoding scheme; and designate one or more artificial defects adjacent to the one or more physical defects for exclusion from being assigned to the data containers in the mapping.

Data storage device with manipulated media mapping to control access latency of data containers

A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a magnetic media comprising a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data sectors. A first codeword is encoded, and the first codeword is written to multiple data sectors of a first data track including a first data sector. A second codeword is encoded, and at least part of the second codeword to is written to the multiple data sectors of a second data track adjacent the first data track including a second data sector adjacent the first data sector of the first data track. The first codeword is partially written to at least the first data sector of the first data track when the first data sector of the first data track is corrupted by writing the second codeword to the second data track.

Data storage device employing partial codeword writes to magnetic media

A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk. The disk is spun at a first speed while writing first data to the disk based on a first disk format defining a first capacity for the disk. When a command is received from a host to spin the disk at a second speed different from the first speed, the disk is spun at the second speed while writing second data to the disk based on a second disk format defining a second capacity for the disk different from the first capacity.

Data storage device operated at different spin speeds

A data storage device is disclosed comprising a non-volatile memory. A command rate profile is initialized, wherein the command rate profile defines a limit on a number of access commands received from a host as a function of an internal parameter of the data storage device. The command rate profile is adjusted in response to a change in operating mode.

Data storage device adjusting command rate profile based on operating mode

A Data Storage Device (DSD) includes a disk for storing data, a volatile memory for temporarily storing data to be written on the disk, and a Non-Volatile Solid-State Memory (NVSM) for storing data. Data is stored in the volatile memory in preparation for writing the data on the disk. The data is written from the volatile memory onto the disk, and it is determined whether the data written on the disk is qualified as written. In the event of an unexpected power loss, a portion of unqualified data that has not been qualified as written is transferred from the volatile memory to the NVSM.

Power loss mitigation for data storage device

Systems and methods for improving read failure tolerance during read-modify-write operations of data storage systems accommodating a host that uses a logical sector of a size smaller than the physical sector size of the data storage system. In one embodiment, the data storage system can perform sector indirection in response to a read error during a read-modify-write command.

Data storage device having improved read failure tolerance

Systems and methods for reducing operational latency of data storage systems are disclosed. More particularly, a data storage device can perform conditioning operations on inactive zones while the data storage device is idle. When an active zone is the target of a write command, the data storage device can exchange a conditioned inactive zone for the unconditioned target zone. The write operation can be performed immediately on the previously-inactive already-conditioned zone. At a later time, the target zone can be conditioned.

Methods for reducing operational latency of data storage systems

A control arrangement, for example, in a digital component that forms part of a system, draws an input current for its operation and is configured for monitoring an interface for any one of a group of commands and, upon detecting an issued one of the group of commands, operates the component for executing the issued command in an operational mode, and during an idle time on the interface, the control arrangement exclusively monitors the interface for any one of the group of commands such that the input current is limited to a leakage current. The component may draw less than 1 milliamp of current during the idle mode.

Digital component power savings in a host device and method

A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data sectors. A host write command is received from a host, and previous data is read from at least one data sector which is combined with at least one of the host blocks to generate modified data that is written to the at least one data sector. At least one of a first read command and a first write command is generated, wherein the first read command is for reading the previous data from and the first write command is for writing the modified data to the at least one data sector. At least one of the first read command and the first write command is stored in a command queue for execution based on a rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm.

Disk drive executing rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm to facilitate a read-modify-write operation

A data storage device is disclosed including a non-volatile memory comprising a plurality of memory segments. The LBAs of a read command are mapped to PBAs addressing the memory segments. At least two seed values corresponding to two of the LBAs are generated and stored in an array. The array is then indexed to access the seed value corresponding to each LBA, wherein the seed value is used to seed an error code generator.

Data storage device employing seed array for data path protection

A method for configuring a computer network that includes a full duplex bi-directional first port and an initiator that can issue a request for the first port to assume a state. The first port, when in a first state, is able to bi-directionally communicate with a full duplex bi-directional second port, and when in a second state, is coupled to itself by having an output thereof coupled to an input thereof. The method comprises inhibiting the initiator from issuing the request, sending data to the initiator describing a desired state of the first port, and enabling the initiator to issue the request for the first port to assume the desired state.

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Westminster, CO, United States of America

Scott E Burton