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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1984
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1981
Martyn A Lewis, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Steven K Penniman, Goleta, CA (US);
David A Sutton, Santa Ynez, CA (US);
DMA Systems Corporation, Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
In a magnetic disc storage system and a magnetic disc therefor, the disc having opposed surfaces, at least one of the surfaces being coated with a magnetic material, the disc being adapted to be mounted on a spindle for rotation relative to a magnetic transducer positioned for recording data on and retrieving data from the disc, a plurality of concentric annular tracks being defined on the surface of the disc, each of the tracks being divided into a plurality of sectors, each sector having associated therewith prerecorded servo data for identification thereof, the improvement wherein the servo data for each sector comprises a unit distance track identification code recorded three times in succession, the code changing between adjacent sectors of adjacent tracks, and a clock shift check code recorded immediately following the last recorded one of the track identification codes, the same clock shift check code being recorded for each sector of every track.