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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2002
Paul M. Cisewski, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Blake Finstad, San Juan Bautista, CA (US);
Peter Kui Ho, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Kishan Kumar Kumbla, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Daniel J. Malone, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Arthur Thomas, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul M. Cisewski, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Blake Finstad, San Juan Bautista, CA (US);
Peter Kui Ho, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Kishan Kumar Kumbla, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Daniel J. Malone, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Arthur Thomas, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a marker at the end of the adaptive self-servowrite process for adaptive formatting via the self-servowrite process. The mark is used later in the drive manufacturing process to identify the number of tracks written on the surface and thus determine the appropriate format to use in the drive.