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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2008
William A. Sargenti, Jr., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Paul C. Santa Ana, Orange, CA (US);
William A. Sargenti, Jr., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Paul C. Santa Ana, Orange, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head actuated over the disk, and a read channel for processing a read signal generated by the head. The disk drive further comprises a plurality of code segments including a read channel interface procedure having an input parameter comprising a pointer to a data structure. The data structure comprises a command ID identifying one of a plurality of routines, input data for use by the routine identified by the command ID, a pointer to a data structure for use by the routine identified by the command ID, and output data returned by the routine identified by the command ID.
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