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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Hai T. Ho, Westminster, CO (US);
Toan Q. Doan, West Lafayette, CO (US);
Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, CO (US);
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a disk drive servo apparatus, and method for implementing the same, that maintains a transducer on a substantially non-perturbed path despite the fact that the tracks were written in a perturbed manner by a servo track writer. The invention utilizes a non-causal filter to determine servo track writer repetitive run-out (STW_RRO) values for each sector of each track at the drive level. The STW_RRO values are stored, preferably in their respective servo sectors on the surface of the disk, for use during track following operations. During read and write operations, the STW_RRO values are retrieved from storage and are used to generate position error signals necessary to maintain the transducer on the desired path.