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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1997
Allen Keith Bates, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nhan Xuan Bui, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alan August Fennema, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tetsuo Semba, Zama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a system for compensating for hard sector noise degradation of tracking error signals in an optical data storage system. The system includes a hard sector detection circuit which generates a first output signal in response to receiving a first input signal representing detection of a hard sector on a magneto-optical disk; a logic circuit which generates a second output signal in response to receiving the first output signal and a second input signal; and a tracking error signal reconstruction circuit which generates an approximated tracking error signal in response to receiving a tracking error signal and the second output signal. The invention may be embodied as hardwired circuitry or as a combination of hardware and software embodied in a computer readable medium and implemented in a digital computer.