MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

• US 20100110580A1
• Filed: 09/04/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TAKASHIMA, Daisaburo
• Granted Patent: US 8,169,733 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 360/75
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2005/0002 Special dispositions or recording techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10916 Seeking data on the record carrier for preparing an access to a specific address
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1238 track, i.e. the entire a spirally or concentrically arranged path on which the recording marks are located
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1242 the area forming one or more zones, wherein each zone is shaped like an annulus or a circular sector
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1267 Address data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/30 on the same track as the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/012 Recording on, or reproducing or erasing from, magnetic disks G11B17/00, G11B19/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/09 Digital recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/59633 Servo formatting G11B5/59627, G11B5/59677, G11B5/59683, G11B5/59688 take precedence

Abstract

A magnetic disk device includes a disk that includes a plurality of tracks and magnetically stores therein data; a magnetic head that reads and writes data on the tracks; a data writing unit that classifies sectors along one track into a plurality of sector groups and writes to a physical address of each of the sector groups data of a logical address that is different from a logical address corresponding to the physical address in same track; and a first nonvolatile memory that stores therein a conversion table of the logical address and the physical address.

Claims

1. A magnetic disk device comprising:

a disk that includes a plurality of tracks and magnetically stores therein data;

a magnetic head that reads and writes data on the tracks;

a voice coil motor that moves the magnetic head to select an arbitrary track from the tracks;

a read/write channel that modulates the data read and written by the magnetic head;

a servo control circuit that controls a position of the tracks;

a controller that includes a micro processing unit and performs control;

an error check and correct circuit that corrects the data;

an interface circuit that connects the magnetic disk device to an external device;

a data writing unit that classifies sectors along one track into a plurality of sector groups and writes to a physical address of each of the sector groups data of a logical address that is different from a logical address corresponding to the physical address in same track; and

a first nonvolatile memory that stores therein a conversion table of the logical address and the physical address.

2. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second nonvolatile memory that stores therein a data valid flag that indicates whether the data written on the disk is valid data;

an input unit that receives a write invalid command, which indicates that the data written on the disk is already invalid, and address and size indicating an effective range of the write invalid command, from an external interface; and

a changing unit that changes the data valid flag based on the write invalid command and the address and size.

3. The magnetic disk device according to claim 2, wherein any one of the first nonvolatile memory and the second nonvolatile memory stores therein any one of write data from outside and read data from the disk.

4. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the data write unit writes the data at a position from which a rotational latency of the disk is minimal when writing the data.

5. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the data write unit writes to the physical address of each of the sector groups the data of the logical address that is different from the logical address corresponding to the physical address in the same track by switching a position of the sector groups in the same track.

6. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein

the data write unit, when there is no valid write data in a track, writes the data at a position at which a logical address of the track is logically rotated so that a rotational latency of the disk is minimal, and

the first nonvolatile memory stores therein the conversion table by logically rotating a relationship between the physical address and the logical address with respect to the sector groups along the track.

7. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the first nonvolatile memory is a ferroelectric random access memory.

19. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the first nonvolatile memory is a ferroelectric random access memory.

8. A magnetic disk device comprising:

a disk that includes a plurality of tracks and magnetically stores therein data;

a magnetic head that reads and writes data on the tracks;

a voice coil motor that moves the magnetic head to select an arbitrary track from the tracks;

a read/write channel that modulates the data read and written by the magnetic head;

a servo control circuit that controls a position of the tracks;

a controller that includes a micro processing unit and performs control;

an error check and correct circuit that corrects the data;

an interface circuit that connects the magnetic disk device to an external device;

a data writing unit that classifies the tracks into a plurality of track groups and writes to a physical address of each of the track groups data of a logical address in a different track; and

a first nonvolatile memory that stores therein a conversion table of the logical address and the physical address.

9. The magnetic disk device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a second nonvolatile memory that stores therein a data valid flag that indicates whether the data written on the disk is valid data;

an input unit that receives a write invalid command, which indicates that the data written on the disk is already invalid, and address and size indicating an effective range of the write invalid command, from an external interface; and

a changing unit that changes the data valid flag based on the write invalid command and the address and size.

10. The magnetic disk device according to claim 9, wherein any one of the first nonvolatile memory and the second nonvolatile memory stores therein any one of write data from outside and read data from the disk.

11. The magnetic disk device according to claim 8, wherein the data write unit writes the data at a position at which a seek time that is time to move the magnetic head is minimal when writing the data.

12. The magnetic disk device according to claim 11, wherein the data write unit, when writing continuous data that continues over a plurality of sectors on the disk, divides the continuous data into a plurality of pieces of data and writes divided data in order from a track group to which the seek time is shorter.

13. The magnetic disk device according to claim 11, wherein the data write unit, when writing continuous data that continues over a plurality of sectors on the disk, writes the continuous data on a track group on which the continuous data is writable continuously and the seek time is short.

14. The magnetic disk device according to claim 8, wherein the first nonvolatile memory is a ferroelectric random access memory.

15. A magnetic disk device comprising:

a disk that includes a plurality of tracks and magnetically stores therein data;

a magnetic head that reads and writes data on the tracks;

a voice coil motor that moves the magnetic head to select an arbitrary track from the tracks;

a read/write channel that modulates the data read and written by the magnetic head;

a servo control circuit that controls a position of the tracks;

a controller that includes a micro processing unit and performs control;

an error check and correct circuit that corrects the data;

an interface circuit that connects the magnetic disk device to an external device;

a first data writing unit that classifies sectors along one track into a plurality of sector groups and writes to a first physical address of each of the sector groups data of a first logical address that is different from a logical address corresponding to the first physical address in same track;

a second data writing unit that classifies the tracks into a plurality of track groups and writes to a second physical address of each of the track groups data of a second logical address in a different track; and

a first nonvolatile memory that stores therein a first conversion table of the first logical address and the first physical address and a second conversion table of the second logical address and the second physical address.

16. The magnetic disk device according to claim 15, further comprising:

a second nonvolatile memory that stores therein a data valid flag that indicates whether the data written on the disk is valid data;

an input unit that receives a write invalid command, which indicates that the data written on the disk is already invalid, and address and size indicating an effective range of the write invalid command, from an external interface; and

a changing unit that changes the data valid flag based on the write invalid command and the address and size.

17. The magnetic disk device according to claim 16, wherein any one of the first nonvolatile memory and the second nonvolatile memory stores therein any one of write data from outside and read data from the disk.

18. The magnetic disk device according to claim 16, wherein the first data write unit and the second data write unit write the data at a position at which a sum of a rotational latency of the disk and a seek time that is time to move the magnetic head is minimal when writing the data.