A method and apparatus for accessing data blocks in a computer system having multiple-disk drive rotational position sensing which is not centrally synchronized and where data read and write requests are normally weighted by the order of availability of requested data blocks. The weighting of the priority,...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US4200928?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4200928 - Method and apparatus for weighting the priority of access to variable length data blocks in a multiple-disk drive data storage system having an auxiliary processing device