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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2004
Jack M. Chue, Los Altos, CA (US);
Siri S. Weerasooriya, Campbell, CA (US);
Tehri S. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack M. Chue, Los Altos, CA (US);
Siri S. Weerasooriya, Campbell, CA (US);
Tehri S. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk having a plurality of servo bursts written using perpendicular magnetic recording, wherein each servo burst is written at a servo burst frequency. A fill pattern is written between the servo bursts using perpendicular magnetic recording at a frequency substantially equal to an even harmonic of the servo burst frequency, and a phase shift occurs at the transition between the servo burst and the fill pattern. A head is actuated over the disk, and a sampling device samples a read signal emanating from the head to generate a sequence of read signal sample values. Control circuitry demodulates the servo bursts from the sequence of read signal sample values by computing a single-point Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) at the servo burst frequency.