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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
May. 23, 2001
Karl A. Belser, San Jose, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A patterned media having recordable and non-recordable regions is initialized by first erasing (e.g. DC magnetizing) at least a portion of the recordable regions. At least one offset may then be determined. The at least one offset may compensate for a read to write delay in the electronics and/or at least one delay caused by the space separation between a read and a write head. A plurality of position error signal (PES) bursts may then be written on at least a portion of the recordable regions. During the write process, the previously written PES bursts are read and used to determine PES signals (e.g. servo signals) in order to guide the write head while writing new PES bursts. Magnetically written gray code may then be written on the media. The magnetically written gray code may be used to define a track number for the data tracks with no eccentricity.