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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
Jason D. Gregg, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for compensating for servo data distortion in a disc drive. During a seek wherein a head is moved from an initial track to a destination track on a disc surface, servo position data are decoded on intermediary tracks by generating nominally redundant positive and negative digital pulse streams from positive and negative peaks in a servo readback signal. The positive and negative digital pulse streams are combined using a default Boolean logical operator (such as an AND operator) to qualify pulses in a first output digital pulse stream used to determine head position. When distortion arises that prevents correct detection of head position from the first output digital pulse stream, a second Boolean logical operator (such as an OR operator) is switched in to generate a second output digital pulse stream. Depending on the type of distortion, a selected one of the operators will provide improved servo data decoding.