System and method for sector remapping

An apparatus comprising:

• a sector translator configured to
• receive a logical data sector, and
• calculate data to be padded to said logical data sector to form multiple physical data sectors;
• and
• a transmitter coupled to said sector translator, said transmitter configured to
• generate frames for writing said logical data sector into a storage device comprising a plurality of physical sectors for storing data, said frames comprising a control frame containing at least a portion of said padded data, and
• transfer said logical data sector into said storage device via said frames so that said multiple physical data sectors excluding said padded data are written into said plurality of physical sectors in a single write operation.

A storage device comprising:

• a plurality of physical sectors for storing data;
• and
• a drive configured to
• receive a write command in connection with writing data into said storage device,
• receive one or more frames containing said data, and
• for each of said one or more frames, determine whether said frame is a control frame comprising at least a portion of padding data or a data frame comprising at least a portion of said data;
• wherein a total of said data and said padding data in said one or more frames comprise multiple physical sectors to be written into said storage device in an unaligned write operation.

A computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions for storing data blocks into a storage device having a plurality of physical sectors, said instructions, when executed, causing a computer to:

• generate a first frame containing a first data padding associated with a first physical sector in a storage device;
• generate a second frame containing said data blocks to be written into said storage device, said data blocks comprising one or more logical sectors, said logical sectors different from said physical sectors at least in size;
• generate a third frame containing a second data padding associated with a second physical sector in said storage device;
• and
• transmit said first, second and third frames to said storage device in a single write operation,
• wherein a total of said first data padding, said data blocks and said second data padding comprise multiple physical sectors.

A computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, said instructions, when executed, causing a computer to:

• receive a logical data sector;
• calculate data to be padded to said logical data sector to form multiple physical data sectors;
• generate frames for writing said logical data sector into a storage device comprising a plurality of physical sectors for storing data, said frames comprising a control frame containing at least a portion of said padded data;
• and
• transfer said logical data sector into said storage device via said frames so that said multiple physical data sectors excluding said padded data are written into said plurality of physical sectors in a single write operation.

A computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions, said instructions, when executed, causing a computer to:

• receive a write command in connection with writing data into a storage device;
• receive one or more frames containing said data;
• and
• for each of said one or more frames, determine whether said frame is a control frame comprising at least a portion of padding data or a data frame comprising at least a portion of said data;
• wherein a total of said data and said padding data in said one or more frames comprise multiple physical sectors to be written into said storage device in an unaligned write operation.