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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
SweeKieong Choo, Singapore, SG;
WeiLoon Ng, Singapore, SG;
BengWee Quak, Singapore, SG;
Wesley WingHung Chan, Singapore, SG;
Kwee Teck Say, Singapore, SG;
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing retry redundancy during disc read operations in a disc drive system are provided in which a number of physical sectors to be read from the disc during read operations is first determined. An attempt is then made to read all sectors of the number of sectors during a first disc revolution. Failed sectors of the number of sectors during the first disc revolution are also identified. A retry cycle is then performed on the failed sectors during a second disc revolution following the completion of the attempt to read all sectors of the number of sectors during the first revolution.