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Disk drive and method of controlling the same

  • US 20060132959A1
  • Filed: 11/28/2005
  • Published: 06/22/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A disk drive comprising:

  • a disk medium;

    a head configured to perform a read/write operation for accessing the disk medium to read information from and to write information to the disk medium;

    a head controller configured to control the position of the head so that the head describes a substantially spiral trajectory relative to the surface of the disk medium; and

    a controller configured to control the head controller, perform a read/write operation for writing or reading information with reference to an identifier table associating sector identifiers identifying sectors on an accessed track with logical block addresses, and create an identifier table for a track to be accessed next during the read/write operation.

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