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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuhiro Sugawara, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes a first storage device, a second storage device, and a controller. The first storage device stores data for use in determining influence imposed on tracks peripheral to a designated track in which data should be written on a disk. The second storage device has a nonvolatile cache area for temporarily storing data. The controller performs a cache process of storing the data in the nonvolatile cache area if the influence is determined, from the data, to exceed a reference value, in preparation for writing the data in the designated track.