A disk drive has on-board soft error recovery procedures for recovering data following a soft error, and the capability to selectively disable or limit this feature. Preferably, a set of data storage devices are used to store heterogeneous data, i.e., to store some alphanumeric data, and some multimedia...http://www.google.de/patents/US6631493?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6631493 - Method and apparatus for limiting soft error recovery in a disk drive data storage device
