| 摘要 |
An apparatus and a method to access data from a digital recording medium configured to store data in sectors delimited by a predetermined sequence of sync patterns. The apparatus includes a sync pattern detector and a sync sequence detector to detect whether a sequence of sync patterns detected by the sync pattern detector matches the predetermined sync pattern sequence. The sync sequence detector generates a sync error signal whenever a detected sync pattern fails to match an expected sync pattern taken from the predetermined sync pattern sequence. A sync error signal counter counts the number of sync error signals generated by the sync sequence detector and a comparator compares the number of sync error signals counted by the sync error signal counter with a sync error threshold, the comparator generating a disk error signal when the threshold is exceeded. As the method and the implementing device need not rely upon the successful detection of any one sync pattern in the sector including the first sync pattern of the sector, data accesses may be carried out even though the first or a predetermined number of subsequent sync patterns in the sector may be unreadable or corrupted.
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