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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2005
Haruo Andoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Andoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive capable of preventing the deterioration of performance. In one embodiment, a disk drive includes a disk medium; a head capable of performing a read/write operation for accessing the disk medium to read information from and to write information to the disk medium; a head controller for controlling the position of the head so that the head describes a substantially spiral trajectory relative to the disk medium; and a controller capable of controlling the head controller, of performing a read/write operation for reading or writing information with reference to an identifier table associating sector identifiers identifying sectors on a specified track with logical block addresses, and of creating an identifier table for a track to be accessed next during the read/write operation.
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