Patent ID: 8468312

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a disk drive, a request to write at least one block of a first block size, wherein the disk drive is configured to store blocks of a second block size that is larger in size than the first block size, and wherein the disk drive stores via emulation a plurality of emulated blocks of the first block size in each block of the second block size; generating, by the disk drive, a read error, in response to reading a selected block of the second block size in which the at least block of the first block size is to be written via the emulation; performing, by the disk drive, a destructive write of selected emulated blocks of the first block size that caused the read error to be generated; writing, by the disk drive, the at least one block of the first block size in the selected block of the second block size; and sending, by the disk drive, a notification to indicate the performing of the destructive write.