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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1998
Richard William Hull, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Vafa James Rakshani, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
David Price Turner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Leslie Cloke, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Western Digital Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive includes a disk having a disk surface, the disk surface having a plurality of tracks arranged in an embedded servo format. The disk surface includes a plurality of radially-extending user-data regions and a plurality of radially-extending servo-data regions. Each user-data region has a plurality of data zones in each of which user data are stored in a plurality of track segments at a data channel frequency particular to that data zone. Each servo-data region has a plurality of servo zones in each of which servo data are stored in a plurality of track segments at a servo channel frequency particular to that servo zone. The servo channel frequency differs from the data channel frequency for at least one track.