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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1998

Filed:

Jul. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Paul F Kusbel, Edmond, OK (US);

John E Moon, Oklahoma City, OH (US);

Anish A Ukani, Oklahoma City, OH (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39518213 ; 395404 ; 360 7704 ; 360 53 ; 369 32 ; 369 54 ;
Abstract

Method and apparatus for optimizing the read/write channel error recovery process in a disc drive. An error recovery table comprising a plurality of sequentially ordered corrective operations is provided so that, upon receipt of an error from the disc drive read/write channel, the corrective operations are sequentially performed in an attempt to correct the error. At such time that a selected one of the corrective operations results in the correction of the error, the table is reordered so that the selected one of the corrective operations is advanced in the table sequence, and the reordered table is used upon the occurrence of the next error. Additionally, a series of free retries is performed prior to the operation of the error recovery table.


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