Abstract:
Systems, circuits, devices and/or methods related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for re-processing data sets not successfully processed during standard processing.
Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure pertain to a read channel system and method for providing sector prioritization for promoting improved sector processing performance. The system and method, during processing of sectors of data, prioritize each of the sectors for further processing based upon: a global iteration index of each sector, trapping set characteristics of each sector and processing latency of each sector.
Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure pertain to a read channel system and method for providing sector prioritization for promoting improved sector processing performance. The system and method, during processing of sectors of data, prioritize each of the sectors for further processing based upon: a global iteration index of each sector, trapping set characteristics of each sector and processing latency of each sector.
Abstract:
A system is described for recovering data from a number of sectors, such as the sectors of a hard disk drive (HDD) disk platter, and so forth. The system receives data from the sectors via a read channel and uses a layered data decoder to recover data from the sectors. A memory is coupled with the processor and configured to retain data received from one or more of the sectors, e.g., in retained sector reprocessing (RSR) embodiments. The system is configured to update messages in different circulant layers of the data decoder's parity-check matrix. The system uses one message update order in a processing iteration, and different message update orders in subsequent reprocessing iterations. In some embodiments, layer reordering is used for RSR. In some embodiments, circulant reordering is used for RSR.
Abstract:
The disclosure is directed to detection of a sync mark location for at least one data sector of a disk by processing a first sector and at least a second sector in parallel. A first set of data samples from the first sector is reframed according to one or more sync mark locations based upon a first selected sync mark location, and a second set of data samples from the second sector is reframed according to one or more sync mark locations based upon a second selected sync mark location. The first set of data samples and the second set of data samples are iteratively reframed and decoded until the first sector or the second sector converges or until all possible sync mark locations have been attempted.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to selectively protecting a portion of a track including a plurality of data sectors. The data sectors include a plurality of user sectors and one or more parity sectors. Protected bits are designated in each of the of data sectors. The protected bits are selected to have matching bit indices across the data sectors resulting in a parallel alignment of the protected bits across the user and parity sectors. One or more selections of protected bits of the user sectors are encoded across matching bit indices to generate data values in the corresponding protected bits of the parity sectors. At least one portion of at least one failed sector is recoverable by decoding at least one selection of the protected bits when a sector error occurs at a protected bit.