Patents Assigned to Seagate Technologgy LLC
  • Physical zone table for use with surface-based serpentine format
    Patent number: 7035961
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing data stored on surfaces of discs in a disc drive utilizing more than one serpent per recording zone. The serpents are traversed using a defect descriptor table and one or more physical zone tables (PZTs). An Address Translation Logic Unit is configurable to use one or more PZTs to access multiple serpents per recording zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Seagate Technologgy LLC
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Edgar, Bang Cong Nguyen, Jimmie R. Shaver, Mark Alan Heath, Mark Allen Gaertner, Kenneth Lawrence Barham