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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Alexander Babinski, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Zhenyu Zhang, Irvine, CA (US);
Eugene Chun-Tsing Wu, Irvine, CA (US);
Alan M. Fossen, Silverado, CA (US);
Chuanwen Ji, Irvine, CA (US);
Duc T. Phan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Donald Brunnett, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes: a media; a head over the media; a read channel, coupled to the head, configured to extract data from the media; control circuitry, coupled to the read channel, configured to execute a read command; and wherein the read channel is further configured to: generate, based on extracting the data from the media, a data condition indicator, and provide, for use by the control circuitry, the data and the data condition indicator.