Maxtor 10K III manual Number, before it will read or write the data

An EDC is calculated and added to each data block as the data arrives from the SCSI bus (after SCSI bus parity is checked). The EDC is stored with the data and protected by the block ECC for added security. On reading or writing, the EDC is checked as the data is transferred between buffer RAM and the media or the SCSI bus.

Feature Descriptions

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Embedded servo information is written in a spoke configuration on every track, on every disk surface. The spokes (or headers) consist of quadrature analog patterns and digital address data. The digital portions of the spoke data are read and used to locate the desired track, spoke, and head number. The quadrature analog signal portion is detected and used by a servo feedback control loop to precisely position the head on the track center.

#The￿+06')4+6;disk drives use￿a#0&combination￿5'%74+6;of parity checking, error detection coding (EDC), error correction coding (ECC), and checkpointing to protect stored data from media

￿￿￿￿￿errors, transfer or addressing errors, or errors introduced during block reallocation.

/GFKCTo ￿ensure'TTQT￿that2TQVGEVKQPdata read is the same as data written, the drive computes and appends an Error Correction Code (ECC) to each block of data stored. The drive uses a 352- bit Reed Solomon code with a 4:1 interleave, which can correct up to 20 bytes in each block.

The drive can also correct up to 2 bytes per interleave (up to 8 per block) in hardware (“on-the-fly”), with no loss in throughput.

￿￿￿￿￿6TCPUHGTAn end￿-'TTQTto-end￿2TQVGEVKQPerror detection code (EDC) protects data from any errors introduced

by internal buses, the disk controller chip, the data cache, or the SCSI interface.

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￿￿￿￿￿	Each data block on the media is identified and located by a servo spoke address. The
	spoke address consists of a two-byte word. Each spoke has multiple copies of the least
	significant bytes of the address. The disk hardware requires that a majority of the
	copies agree and that the result agrees with the expected head, track, and spoke
	number, before it will read or write the data.
	To further protect against addressing errors, the logical address (LBA) of the data is
	added to the EDC of each block. If data is written to the wrong block and
	subsequently read, or read from the wrong block, the error will be flagged.
	The hardware does not allow a blind read of a data block; the firmware must request
	specific data blocks. Even if the head selection hardware malfunctions, it is not possible
	for the drive to return data from the wrong head.
6-4	Maxtor Atlas 10K