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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1994
Ronald R Moon, Lewiston, UT (US);
Daniel E Barnard, San Jose, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for recovering servo information in a disk drive for positioning a data transducer head relative to concentric data tracks wherein the head reads user data encoded in a predetermined data code and reads servo information within plural servo sectors embedded in each data track defined on a storage surface of a rotating disk. The data tracks are arranged in plural groups of concentric tracks within concentric zones wherein each zone has a user data transfer rate selected in relation to disk radius, the servo information being recorded in at least three patterns within each embedded servo sector: a servo sync pattern, a user data code violating pattern, and a servo data bit pattern. A servo data recovery circuit implements the method comprising the steps of: