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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2008
Applicants:
Bob R. Southerland, Longmont, CO (US);
John Mead, Longmont, CO (US);
Kevin W. Mcginnis, Berthoud, CO (US);
Inventors:
Bob R. Southerland, Longmont, CO (US);
John Mead, Longmont, CO (US);
Kevin W. McGinnis, Berthoud, CO (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disk formatter includes an address module for creating disk block address data corresponding to a disk sector of a disk drive. A sector write module initiates a physical mode write operation to the disk sector that incorporates the corresponding disk block address data.