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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1994
Peter J Elliott, Alresford, GB;
Anthony R Hearn, Winchester, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A disk file includes multiple disk surfaces, on which servo information is recorded, with an offset in azimuth from one disk surface to another. Each head comprises a magnetoresistive stripe for reading and an inductive write coil. The servo system reads servo information from each disk in turn, multiplexing the signals from each disk together to form a single position error signal (PES). The separation of the servo multiplexer, attached to the MR stripes, from the write multiplexer, attached to the inductive coils, avoids problems due to contamination of the servo signal by the write signal. A least squares fit is used to generate the PES from the series of servo samples from each disk surface.