Seagate Technology Incorporated

Khong Mau Ling

Myint Ngwe

Kah Liang Gan

Beng Wee Quak

Quek Leong Choo

Kwee Teck Say

Lakshmi Anantha Challa

Lian Chong Kwek

A method and apparatus are provided for reading from a storage medium to form data values. A signal is generated from a sector on the storage medium and a section of that signal is identified as having a change in amplitude. A gain multiplier is activated to multiply that section of the signal by a gain value. The gain multiplier is deactivated at the end of the section so that the remaining portion of the sector signal is not multiplied by the gain value. This results in a defect adjusted signal that is applied to a detector to detect data values.

Method and apparatus for data error recovery using defect threshold detector and viterbi gain

A process of run-time temperature compensating bias current to a magnetoresistive read head in which a plurality of temperature ranges are defined with associated bias current values. A hysteresis range of temperatures is defined for each boundary between temperature ranges. A bias current value is selected based on the temperature range of the sensed temperature. The process is repeated. If the sensed temperature is in a different temperature range from that previously identified and the measured temperature is not in a hysteresis range at the boundary with the temperature range previously identified, the selected bias current value is based on the presently identified temperature range. If the sensed temperature is in a hysteresis range at the boundary with the temperature range previously.

Method and apparatus for run-time temperature compensation of giant magnetoresistive head bias current

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