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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
Lee D. Cleveland, West Concord, MN (US);
James R. Gathman, Rochester, MN (US);
James A. O'connor, Ulster Park, NY (US);
Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
Lee D. Cleveland, West Concord, MN (US);
James R. Gathman, Rochester, MN (US);
James A. O'Connor, Ulster Park, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage device comprising a storage medium having a plurality of sectors and a superset format. Each sector includes a header, a data section and a trailer, the data section sized to contain a number of bytes per sector equal to or greater than a maximum of subset formats to be supported. Meta data in a non-user portion of the storage medium includes a flag for indicating a subset format such that each sector is formatted to store less than the number of bytes.
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