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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Applicants:
Jim Hargarten, Lafayette, CO (US);
Thomas Melrose, Longmont, CO (US);
John Purkett, Longmont, CO (US);
Inventors:
Jim Hargarten, Lafayette, CO (US);
Thomas Melrose, Longmont, CO (US);
John Purkett, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B005/596 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically determining an embedded runout correction threshold for a disk drive are disclosed. In prior systems, embedded runout correction thresholds were set for all disk drives in a production run. The present invention provides a technique for automatically determining an embedded runout correction threshold on a drive-by-drive basis, instead of a production run of drives basis.