摘要:
A magnetic disk drive has magnetic disks having tracks and a number of sectors forming each track. The tracks have an ID few track format and the drive is divided into a plurality of notches. The drive also includes a memory and a defect sector list, sector replacement list, defect track list and replacement track list, each of which is stored in the memory. Defective sectors and tracks in each notch are slipped during formatting, and further defective sectors and tracks detected subsequent to the formatting are skipped. Spare sectors in the notch are provided in a spare region to accommodate the slipped and skipped sectors and tracks, respectively. The defective sector list is supervised as a two stage table to reduce the required memory size for maintaining the list and to decrease the time required for searching the list.
摘要:
A data transfer control apparatus for communicating data between a host device and an input/output device through a main buffer memory for temporarily holding the data, wherein a sub-buffer memory is disposed at least either between the main buffer memory and the host device or between the main buffer memory and the input/output device for temporarily storing the data, the amount of data stored in the sub-buffer memory is detected, access requests to the main buffer memory on the side of the host device or the input/output device are outputted in accordance with the detected data amount, and one of the access requests to the main buffer memory is selected in accordance with the priority order to access the main buffer memory on the basis of the selected access request.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a magnetic disk control apparatus capable of utilizing a data region of a track. The data read/write controlling apparatus according to the present invention comprises a unit for serially reading a signal series constructed of a servo signal and data which has been recorded on a recording track; a unit for generating a first read/ write control signal in response to the servo signal of the read signal series; a unit for generating a second read/write control signal between the generation of the servo signal and a generation of a servo signal subsequent to the first-mentioned signal; a unit for writing given data into the data region of the recording track in response to the generation of the read/write control signal; and a unit for externally outputting data read out just after the read/write control signal is generated.
摘要:
A disk type recording and reproducing apparatus includes a disk type recording medium having a plurality of tracks and having stored on each of the plurality of tracks a position signal indicating positions on the tracks; a drive section for rotating the disk type recording medium; a dual head separately incorporating a reading head for reading from the disk type recording medium and a writing head for writing into the disk type recording medium; a head drive section for moving the dual head; means for controlling the head drive section by a controlled variable in compliance with a position signal read from the disk type recording medium using an object track and the reading head; and memory means for storing quantity information used to correct the controlled variable of the means for controlling the head drive section. The means for controlling the head drive section, at least in a writing operation, obtains the controlled variable of the head drive section according to the position signal read from the disk type recording medium using the object track and the reading head and the quantity information stored in the memory means.
摘要:
A magnetic disk recording and reproducing apparatus including a unit for inserting an error correcting code relating to control information in the control information, the control information relating to data, a recording control unit for recording the control information and the data in a recording area of a magnetic disk, the recording area having a plurality of sectors, each of the sectors having an ID area for recording the control information and a data area for recording the data, the data area corresponding to the ID area and being provided adjacent to and behind the ID area in the same sector as the ID area, and an error correcting unit for correcting errors in the control information in the ID area using the error correcting code before the data in the data area corresponding to the ID area and provided in the same sector as the ID area is read or recorded.
摘要:
In a magnetic disk unit for recording/reproducing data onto/from a disc by means of a magnetic head on the basis of a seek command and a recording/reproducing command received from a host processor, the execution of the data reproducing command for the disk is started upon detection of a state that the magnetic head has sought on a desired track to an extent that the centering state is still unstable but the data can be reproduced, and the execution of the data recording command is started upon detection of a condition that the magnetic head has reached the stable centering state on the desired track after the detection of the reproducible state.
摘要:
A magnetic disk recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a unit for inserting an error correcting code related to control information into said control information on data; a recording control unit for recording in a plurality of sectors formed by dividing the recording area of a magnetic disk, each sector having an ID area for recording said control information and a data area, provided adjacent to and behind said ID area, for recording said data; and a error correcting unit for correcting said control information of said ID area by said error correcting code before data is read from said data area corresponding to said ID area or data is recorded in said data area corresponding to said ID area.
摘要:
A data processing method of recording data on a recording medium mounted on an information recording apparatus. The data processing method includes the steps of dividing, in a disk controller, parallel data constituted by p bits transferred from a high-rank device into data each having q bits, where p and q are numbers; transferring the data each having q bits from the disk controller to an encoder as parallel data constituted by q bits; encoding, in the encoder, the data each having q bits to generate recording signals corresponding to data to be recorded; and recording the recording signals on the recording medium, thereby recording the data to be recorded on the recording medium. The data processing method may further include the steps of reproducing, from the recording medium, the recording signals recorded on the recording medium; decoding, in a decoder, the reproduced recorded signals to generate data each having p bits; transferring the data each having p bits from the decoder to the disk controller as parallel data constituted by p bits; and converting, in the disk controller, the data each having p bits into parallel data constituted by m bits to be transferred to the high-rank device, where m is a number.
摘要:
This invention relates to a biologically active substance which is a glycoprotein having a molecular weight of 3,000 to 5,000 and has activity to inhibit toxoplasma multiplication in homologous cells and heterologous cells.This invention also relates to a process for preparing the substance, immunoactive compositions containing the substance and use of the substance as a drug.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention help to suppress adverse effects on the host computer operation caused by saving a segment table. According to one embodiment, a hard disk drive (HDD) creates a segment table to associate addresses of user data in a flash memory with LBAs in a magnetic disk. The HDD updates the segment table in a DRAM and saves it to the flash memory at a specific timing. The HDD creates a journal indicating an update of the segment table and saves it to the flash memory. The segment table and the journal in the flash memory enable the latest segment table to be restored. If the HDD receives a predetermined command from a host computer, it saves the segment table in the DRAM into the flash memory.