Patent ID: 7730370
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for controlling read checking of disk data of a disk drive, the apparatus comprising: a disk lubricant sweep component periodically initiating a disk lubricant spreading action for sweeping lubricant over a disk surface of the disk drive; a disk data read check component for checking data stored on the disk surface of the disk drive, the read check component checking data at one or more logical byte addresses as the disk lubricant sweep component sweeps lubricant over the surface of the disk for determining if data in a checked logical byte addresses is readable; a caching component for caching data from one or more logical byte addresses that have been checked by said disk data read check component and found correct; and a read check recording component for recording that one or more logical byte addresses have been checked by said disk data read check component and found correct, wherein logical byte addresses that have been recorded as checked by said disk data read check component and found correct are omitted from subsequent operation of said disk data read check component.