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US 7,461,197 B2Granted
Disk formatter and methods for use therewith
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsBob R. Southerland, John Mead, Kevin W. McGinnis
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Abstract
A disk formatter includes an address module for creating disk block address data corresponding to a disk sector of a disk drive. A sector write module initiates a physical mode write operation to the disk sector that incorporates the corresponding disk block address data.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- creating disk block address data corresponding to a disk sector of a disk drive wherein the disk block address data includes a value that indicates that the disk sector was written in physical mode;
- and
- initiating a physical mode write operation to the disk sector that incorporates the corresponding disk block address data.
A method comprising:
- reading disk block address data from a disk block address field of a disk sector of a disk drive;
- and
- determining if the disk sector was written in physical mode, based on the disk block address data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.