Patent ID: 9269376
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B

Claim Text:
1. A data storage device, comprising: storage media comprising a cache storage region and a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) storage region that is divided into a plurality of burst zones; a storage control system configured to receive write operations over a host interface for storage of write data by the data storage device and accumulate the write data in the cache storage region until a commit threshold condition; responsive to the commit threshold condition, the storage control system configured to burst transfer the write data into at least a first burst zone of the SMR storage region; the storage control system configured to verify the write data written into the first burst zone once the storage control system completes the burst transfer of the write data into the first burst zone; and responsive to data verify errors in the write data written into the first burst zone, the storage control system configured to write data associated with the data verify errors into an exception location associated with the first burst zone.