Virtual track for serpentine track format
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Oct 10, 2006
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Nov 3, 2003
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A method of representing a serpentine track accessing format includes obtaining a plurality of head and physical track number pairs in the serpentine track accessing format. Then, each of the head and physical track number pairs are mapped to a unique virtual track number. In some embodiments, the unique the virtual track numbers are in a non-continuous monotonic order. In some embodiments, the unique virtual track numbers are assigned based upon a modulo M which is a function of a maximum number of tracks per physical zone. Translation engines which perform the mapping, as well as data storage systems which include the translation engines, are also disclosed.
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