This paper describes the performance of an efficient error-correcting system for hard disk drives. The performance of the codes on algebraic curves, such as Hermitian codes over GF(28), elliptic codes over GF(29), and Fermat codes over GF(210) is compared with that of conventional Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. In particular, an adoption of Hermitian codes can reduce the redundant part by approximately 800 bits more than the RS codes when an error-correcting capability of 240 bytes is adopted for a long sector size. Moreover, we propose an error-correcting system based on a combination of algebraic geometric codes and parity codes. This combination system can cover a bit-error rate of approximately 10-2 under a condition of EEPR4 channel and additive Gaussian noise.
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Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:41
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Issue:
10
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Date of Publication: Oct. 2005