Methods and systems for accessing disks using forward and reverse seeks

• Main Authors: THOMPSON ROD S, HORST ROBERT W, ALESSI WILLIAM J, MCDONALD JAMES A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.11.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS

The present invention is related to methods and systems for accessing multimedia data stored on a disk array to ensure that the transfer rate does not fall below a selected minimum transfer rate independent of where the multimedia data is stored on the disk array. In one embodiment, the sizes of blo...