Patent ID: 6278566
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
A storage disc for use in a disc drive system, the storage disc comprising:a surface including a plurality of tracks, each track including a plurality of sectors, the surface further including an outer region that includes a first group of the plurality of tracks and an inner region that includes a second group of the plurality of tracks, the inner and outer regions each including a plurality of sectors;wherein the surface further includes a plurality of sector sets that each includes an inner sector selected from one of the plurality of sectors in the inner region and a corresponding outer sector selected from one of the plurality of sectors in the outer region, wherein the inner sector is assigned to the corresponding outer sector independently of information stored to the storage disc, and wherein each of the plurality of sector sets includes one of;an inner and outer sector that each stores a portion of a block of uncompressed information;an outer sector that stores a compressed block of information and an inner sector that is empty; andan inner and outer sector that each is empty.