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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2002
Applicants:
Mark Watson, Louisville, CO (US);
Herman C. Kluge, Erie, CO (US);
Joseph M. Schmalhorst, Broomfield, CO (US);
Inventors:
Mark Watson, Louisville, CO (US);
Herman C. Kluge, Erie, CO (US);
Joseph M. Schmalhorst, Broomfield, CO (US);
Assignee:
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B005/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention divides the recording head into multiple sections, each section accessing a subset of the total number of channels arranged such that one section reads and writes only a subset of the data channels. The sections may be either independently actuated for both coarse (data band) and fine (track-following) positioning, or linked by a common actuator for data band positioning with independent fine position actuators for fine track following.