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Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;

Inventors:

Stephanie Louise Aho, Rochester, MN (US);

Jonathan Darrel Coker, Rochester, MN (US);

David Robison Hall, Rochester, MN (US);

Assignee:

HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A magnetic storage system includes a magnetic storage medium, a random-access memory (RAM), and a controller. The controller interfaces with both the magnetic storage medium and the RAM, and implements a refresh algorithm that determines when a data track on the magnetic storage medium should be refreshed. The controller maintains in the magnetic storage medium a plurality of finer-granularity damage count tables, each table having finer-granularity damage counts each representing damage to one or more sectors within each of the plurality of tracks associated with the table. The controller maintains in RAM a plurality of track-level damage count values, each associated with one of the plurality of data tracks and representing estimated damage to one of the plurality of data tracks. Based on data written to the plurality of data tracks, the controller utilizes finer-granularity damage count tables stored in the magnetic media to update the track-level damage.


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Aho, Stephanie. (2015). System and method for initiating refresh operations (U.S. Patent No. 8941935). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8941935

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