Fujitsu MPG3xxxAT, Product Manual

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(2) Alternate cylinder assignment
A defective sector is assigned to the spare sector in the alternate cylinder.
This processing is performed when a physical track contains three or more defective sectors, and
when the automatic alternate processing is performed.
Figure 6.8 shows an example where (physical) sector 5 is detective on head 0 in cylinder 0.
5 7 6 4 3 1 798 797 2
Index
Cylinder 0
Head 0
Head 0
Already
assigned
Defective
sector
4 alternate cylinders are provided for each head in zone 13 (inner side).
When an access request to sector 5 is specified, the device accesses the alternated sector in the
alternate cylinder instead of sector 5. When an access request to sectors next to sector 5 is
specified, the device seeks to cylinder 0, head 0, and continues the processing.
Defective sector is assigned to unassigned sector.
(unused)
Sector (logical)
Sector (physical)
Alternate
cylinder
2 1 4 3 6 7
798 797
Figure 6.8 Alternate cylinder assignment
(3) Automatic alternate assignment
The device performs the automatic assignment at following case.
1) When ECC correction performance is increased during read error retry, a read error is
recovered.
Before automatic alternate assignment, the device performs rewriting the corrected data to the
erred sector and rereading. If no error occurs at rereading, the automatic alternate assignment
is not performed.
2) When a write error occurs and the error does not recovered.
1 alternate cylinder is provided in inner side.