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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1997
Monty A. Forehand, Yukon, OK (US);
Paul W. Burnett, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Donald B. Douglas, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Charles E. Skeldon, Clearwater, MN (US);
Jimmie R. Shaver, Jr., Yukon, OK (US);
William C. Little, Edmond, OK (US);
Florence F. Kung, Yukon, OK (US);
Krishna R. Malakapalli, Burnsville, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed for recovering from a header error condition in a disc drive of the type having a rotatable disc having a plurality of concentric tracks with data fields for the storage and retrieval of data and header fields providing logical address information for the data fields. The header fields include read and write header fields which are used during read and write operations, respectively, to align read and write elements of the head with the data fields. When the disc drive unsuccessfully decodes the logical address information from a selected header field associated with a selected data block, an alternate header error recovery routine is performed wherein attempts are made to decode the logical address information from the alternate header field associated with the selected data block. Radial offsets can further be applied to the head to enhance the decoding of the logical address information from the alternate header field.