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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
May. 05, 1999
Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, CO (US);
Moris M. Dovek, San Jose, CA (US);
John C. Purkett, Longmont, CO (US);
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
A magnetic storage system is disclosed which has one or more rotating disks. In one embodiment, the system includes a first transducer and a second transducer operatively associated with a respective first surface or second surface. Each of the first and second surfaces has a data track with a data region and an embedded servo sector. The first transducer has a data reader which includes a first MR strip and a servo reader which includes a second MR strip. The first MR strip is electrically isolated from the second MR strip. The first transducer performs a servo reading operation of the servo sector while the second a transducer performs either a data writing operation to the data region or a data reading operation from the data region. Also disclosed is a method for reading within a magnetic storage system. The storage system includes a first magnetic surface, a data reader and a servo reader. The first magnetic surface includes a first data region and a first servo sector. The data reader is not coupled to the servo reader. Servo information is read with the servo reader so that an off-track position of the data reader can be determined. After the off-track position is known, the data reader is moved to compensate for the off-track position. Once the data reader is properly positioned, the data reader retrieves user data from the first data region of the first magnetic surface.