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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2002
Rajita Shrestha, Westminster, CO (US);
Chris Aumann, Broomfield, CO (US);
Lace J. Herman, Boulder, CO (US);
Glen Rewerts, Berthoud, CO (US);
Dave Rewerts, Longmont, CO (US);
Rajita Shrestha, Westminster, CO (US);
Chris Aumann, Broomfield, CO (US);
Lace J. Herman, Boulder, CO (US);
Glen Rewerts, Berthoud, CO (US);
Dave Rewerts, Longmont, CO (US);
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
An off-track error recovery method and apparatus for a disk drive are disclosed herein. Off-track errors are either due to vibration of the disk drive or due to defective servo data stored on a disk surface of the disk drive. In order to tailor error recovery operations associated with each of the two types of off-track errors, the present invention distinguishes between the two types of errors, when possible. Accordingly, the overall time for performing off-track error recovery operations is reduced and/or off-track error recovery operations are made more efficient.