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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:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Nelson Cheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Nelson Cheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for improving the error rate of track information on a magnetic storage device is disclosed. One embodiment provides a counter for counting the number of writes to a first track on a magnetic storage device. In addition, a re-read and re-write initiator is provided for reading information from a second track adjacent to the first track and re-writing the information read from the second track back to said magnetic storage device when said counter reaches a pre-defined number of writes for the fist track.