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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1997
Sean R Atsatt, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Pervez Edul Virjee, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Prafulla Bollampalli Reddy, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Mark Hubert Groo, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Timothy Verne Gates, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William Kent Weberg, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jimmie Ray Shaver, Yukon, OK (US);
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
An address translation unit is provided for logical to physical address conversion. In particular, apparatus and method are described for receiving a logical cylinder head sector for a logical block address and converting it into a physical cylinder head sector. If a logical block address is received, it is converted to a physical block address and then the physical block address is converted into a physical cylinder head sector. If a logical cylinder head sector is first received, it is converted into a logical block address, and then the conversion takes place just as it would for an initially received logical block address.