Patent 10382065 was granted and assigned to Seagate Technology on August, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus may include a circuit that initializes a read operation to read one or more requested data segments of a respective data unit. The circuit may generate equalized combined samples for a failed data segment of the one or more requested data segments based on first samples and second samples. In addition, the circuit may perform iterative outer code recovery for the data unit utilizing the equalized combined samples as samples for the failed data segment.