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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2007
Lim Hudiono, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Stanley K. Cheong, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Daniel R. Pinvidic, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Lim Hudiono, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Stanley K. Cheong, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Daniel R. Pinvidic, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A disk formatter (DF) for a rotating storage medium includes a target sector identification module that determines a block of target sectors of the rotating storage medium based on a read/write command signal. A current sector identification module determines a current sector of a read/write head. A DF control module begins a read/write operation at a command start sector that is different than a first sector of the block of target sectors. The command start sector is located within the block of target sectors.