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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2000
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method within a hard disk drive for transferring track sector information of a storage disk to a memory device. The system of the present invention includes a disk having multiple tracks, wherein each of the tracks includes at least one sector. The system further includes a memory device for storing sector identification data and user data. A drive data bus is utilized for transferring data between the storage disk and the memory. A controller is utilized to manages read and write operations to and from the storage disk, wherein the controller includes means for selecting either said user data or said sector identification data to be transferred to said memory device.