CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2021-037475, filed Mar. 9, 2021, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD

Embodiments described herein relate generally to a magnetic disk device and an error correction processing method.

BACKGROUND

The magnetic disk device has a track including a parity sector obtained exclusively ORing (XORing) sectors. When an error is detected in a particular sector of the track, the magnetic disk device executes an error correction processing (hereinafter, may be referred to as track ECC processing) for correcting the error using an error correction code based on a parity sector corresponding to the track.

