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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1999
Hieu V. Nguyen, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for improving operational performance of a disc drive by detecting defective servo burst patterns. A rotatable disc is provided with servo data which include a plurality of servo burst patterns to define a plurality of tracks. A head transduces the burst patterns to provide burst signals to a servo circuit which controllably positions the head with respect to the surface of the disc by determining a position error signal from a combination of the burst signals. The servo circuit identifies a selected servo burst pattern as defective in relation to differences between absolute values of successive pairs of peak amplitude samples from the burst signal.