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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steven R. Vasquez, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 19/04 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1217 (2013.01); G11B 2020/1232 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data sectors. During a first revolution of the disk, write data is first encoded into a codeword spanning at least a first data sector and a second data sector and a first part of the codeword is written to the first data sector. During a second revolution of the disk, the write data is second encoded into the codeword and a second part of the codeword is written to the second data sector.