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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xiong Liu, Singapore, SG;
Myint Ngwe, Singapore, SG;
Choon Wei Ng, Singapore, SG;
Jian Qiang, Singapore, SG;
Quan Li, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/36 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1217 (2013.01); G11B 5/02 (2013.01); G11B 2020/1232 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data sector is read using two or more passes of a read head over a recording medium. Each of the passes corresponds to a different cross-track offset, each of the data sectors being divided into two or more blocks. For each of the blocks, data is selected from one of the passes that read the block with a higher quality than other passes that read the block. The selected data from each of the blocks to is combined to form recovered data of the data sector.