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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wonchoul Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Kangseok Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haesung Kwon, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Company, , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 ;
Abstract
A method for detecting an asperity in a non-data parking zone of a disk in a hard disk drive. The method includes the steps of moving the heads of the disk drive adjacent to the parking zones of the disks, and then detecting asperities in the parking zones with a thermal asperity detection circuit.