Appeal No. 1999-0243
Application 08/434,457
subparagraph of this claim recite "a defective sector list of
sector numbers for all sectors on a respective one of the
plurality of concentric tracks which are to be skipped". The
final subparagraph of this claim recites "means for receiving a
physical sector number from the data storage system and for
reading the defect list from a sector of a track and for
outputting a logical sector number corresponding to the physical
sector number".
As regards the preamble recitation of "physical sector
number information provided by the storage system and not stored
within any of the plurality of sectors", we note that Greenberg
does not store the physical number information in the "storage
system" but provides the information in sectors on the tracks6.
Although Hikita shows physical sectors disk attributes stored in
register 16, it does not provide for "a defective sector list of
sector numbers for all sectors on a respective one of the
plurality of concentric tracks which are to be skipped" as
recited in first subparagraph of claim 63.
We find, after a careful review of the record, no teaching
or suggestion why one of ordinary skill in this art with these
6 See, inter alia, figures 1 and 2, and column 3.
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