Method for mapping around defective sectors in a disc drive
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May 24, 1988
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Nov 20, 1985
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Nov 20, 1985
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The defect list, as supplied by the manufacturer, is stored on the outer tracks of the disc. It is merged with the user-supplied media defect list during formatting and used to flag defective sectors. During initialization the merged defect list is loaded into a section of dynamic memory so that it is accessible during seeking of a particular address.
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