Patents Assigned to Quantom Corporation
  • Robust and redundant physical block identification scheme for data storage devices
    Patent number: 5521929
    Abstract: A method of uniquely identifying data blocks or groups of data blocks wherein a unique characteristic of the group or block is encoded according to an application of the Chinese Remainder Theorem. According to a particular application, physical addresses of sectors on a hard disk are encoded by applying the Chinese Remainder Theorem, thereby providing a highly robust and fault tolerant means for locating the sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Quantom Corporation
    Inventors: Lih-Jyh Weng, Michael A. Brown