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According to one embodiment, a recording medium control ler includes a recording medium,
an input module, a reading module, and a writing module. The recording medium includes a …

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(57) ABSTRACT A method for managing data bands within an interlaced magnetic recording
(IMR) architecture includes transmitting read/write characteristics of a logical block address …

(57) ABSTRACT A storage device includes a storage controller configured to write a band of
data tracks using a first recording method until criterion is met. The first method may be a …

The invention relates generally to a method for veri? cation of the data that has been Written
in the annular bands of a SMR disk drive. The Write head makes successive paths or tracks …

BACKGROUND As requirements for data storage density increase for magnetic media, cell
size decreases. A commensurate decrease in the size of a write element is difficult because …

A fixed data region on a storage medium may be allocated with one of a variety of allocation
schemes (eg, a randomly writable allocation scheme, a non-randomly writeable allocation …

BACKGROUND Conventional disk drives with magnetic media organize data in concentric
tracks. The concept of shingled writing is a form of perpendicular magnetic recording and …

Int. Cl. GIIB II/00(2006.01) A storage device includes a controller that implements an GIB
5/09(2006.01) interlaced magnetic recording scheme with prioritized ran GIIB 20/2(2006.01) …