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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2007
Kirk Hwang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael A. Moser, San Jose, CA (US);
Spencer W. NG, San Jose, CA (US);
Kirk Hwang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael A. Moser, San Jose, CA (US);
Spencer W. Ng, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Netherlands, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A magnetic disk for a hard disk drive comprising a plurality of physical sector sizes is disclosed. The magnetic disk includes a first sector size area physically formatted according to a first physical sector size and a second sector size area physically formatted according to a second physical sector size different from the first sector size by a multiple of the first sector size wherein the second sector size can be presented externally as multiple sectors of said first sector size.