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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1991
Stephen R Cowen, Louisville, CO (US);
Integral Peripherals, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
The servo field includes at least one sub-field of prerecorded information that simultaneously provides (i) data for a first servo function and (ii) data for at least one other servo function. In another embodiment, a prerecorded embedded servo field includes a first sub-field of prerecorded information that simultaneously provides (i) automatic gain control data for a third sub-field and (ii) data for a first servo function, and a second sub-field of prerecorded information that simultaneously provides (i) automatic gain control (AGC) data for the third sub-field and (ii) data for a second servo function. Since the first and the second sub-fields in the servo field of this invention are used for AGC and another servo function, the sub-fields are arranged within the servo field so that the sub-field that requires the least precise AGC control is first and the sub-field that requires the most precise AGC control is last. To provide AGC data for the first sub-field in the servo field of this invention, AGC data is contained in a write-to-read transition area of the data region preceding the first servo sub-field. The sector mark field of this invention is immune to single bit errors. Specifically, the sub-field used for synchronization is designed so that servo synchronization timing is not lost due to a single bit error in the synchronization sub-field or in the sub-fields preceding the synchronization sub-field.