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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Aznizam Abdullah Salehudin, Bandar Baru Bangi, MY;
Kai Ling Lee, Shah Alam, MY;
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01);
Abstract
A disk drive having a disk, a head actuated over the disk, a volatile semiconductor memory (VSM), a command queue, and control circuitry operable to receive a plurality of write commands from a host, store the plurality of write commands in the command queue, store write data for the plurality of write commands in the VSM, and flush, from the VSM to the disk, a portion of the write data corresponding to a predetermined number of tracks.