Claims
- 1. A method for writing data on a number of sectors of a track of a disk drive that comprises:
sending a signal to write data on a first sector of the track; receiving a write data default; sending a signal to write data on another sector of the track after skipping a predetermined number of sectors; waiting for the first sector to be in position again; and sending a signal to retry to write data on the first sector if a predetermined number of retries to write data on the track has not been exceeded.
- 2. A method of reading data from a number of sectors of a track of a disk drive that comprises:
sending a signal to read data from the number of sectors starting at a first sector of the track; receiving one or more read data defaults; waiting for the first sector to be in position again; and sending a signal to retry to read data from sectors of the track that were unable to be read previously if a predetermined number of retries to read data has not been exceeded.
- 3. The method of claim 1 wherein the predetermined number of sectors to skip is 0.
- 4. The method of claim 1 wherein the predetermined number of sectors to skip is 1, 2 or more.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/429,794, filed on Nov. 27, 2002, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60429794 |
Nov 2002 |
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