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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Mark F. Vallis, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mark F. Vallis, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed wherein if multiple retries beyond a threshold are required to recover a data sector during a normal read operation, the data sector is added to a marginal sector list. During an off-line scan, the data sectors in the marginal sector list are verified. If the verification of a data sector fails, the data sector is relocated.