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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lih-Jyh Weng, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ; G06F 1/300 ; G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ; G06F 1/300 ; G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
A mechanism for providing error protection for data that is to be stored in a data storage system in which data are stored in data sectors in a data storage area and redundant information that provides error protection for the data are stored in redundant sectors in a redundant storage area. New data that is written to a designated one of the data sectors, and that is not error protected by the redundant information, is received, and error correction information for the new data is selectively stored in an additional storage area to provide error protection for the new data instead of revising the redundant information to provide such error protection.