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AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
InventorsTakahiro Shinbori, Kazuya Nara
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According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk and a controller. The magnetic disk includes a plurality of storage areas to which logic block addresses are respectively assigned. A set of two or more of the logic block addresses is associated with a respective one of a plurality of logic address groups. The controller is configured to cause each of the storage areas to store data in either a first recording mode or a second recording mode differing from the first recording mode, and manage, for each of the logic address groups, whether or not data write in the first recording mode has been completed for all the logic block addresses associated.
A magnetic disk device comprising:
A method for controlling a magnetic disk device, the magnetic disk device comprising a magnetic disk including a plurality of storage areas to which logic block addresses are respectively assigned, a set of two or more of the logic block addresses being associated with a respective one of a plurality of logic address groups, the method comprising:
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