Recording method and storage device
AssigneeToshiba Storage Device Corporation
InventorHidekazu Masuyama
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a recording method includes: skipping a track by a skip amount in a skip region smaller than an overall recording region on a magnetic recording medium by using an extra region that is unnecessary for securing a storage capacity to be provided by a storage device, the extra region being on the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium; and recording data while skipping the track in the skip region, wherein the skip region is set to a region in which a track to be recorded on the magnetic recording medium is expected to influence an adjacent track in accordance with at least one of a condition and a state of the storage device.
Claims20
A recording method comprising:
- skipping a track by a skip amount in a skip region smaller than an overall recording region on a magnetic recording medium by using an extra region comprising a storage capacity of a storage device, the extra region being on the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium;
- and
- recording data while skipping the track in the skip region, wherein
- the skip region is a region comprising a track to be recorded on the magnetic recording medium which is predicted to influence an adjacent track in accordance with at least one of a condition and a state of the storage device.
A storage device comprising:
- a head configured to record data in a recording surface of a magnetic recording medium;
- a driver configured to control a position of the head on the magnetic recording medium;
- a storage module configured to store information indicative of skipping;
- and
- a controller configured to control the driver to skip a track by a skip amount in a skip region smaller than an overall recording region on the magnetic recording medium based on the information in the storage module by using an extra region comprising a storage capacity of the storage device, and to control the head to record the data while skipping the track in the skip region, the extra region being on the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium, wherein
- the skip region is a region comprising a track to be recorded on the magnetic recording medium which is predicted to influence an adjacent track in accordance with at least one of a condition and a state of the storage device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.