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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2004
Applicants:
Lloyd Levy, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu Sun, Fremont, CA (US);
Pang L. Tan, Fremont, CA (US);
Jingbo Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Adrian Cerda, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Lloyd Levy, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu Sun, Fremont, CA (US);
Pang L. Tan, Fremont, CA (US);
Jingbo Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Adrian Cerda, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a temporary utility zone in a disk drive. A disk surface has a write head associated therewith. The write head is used to write spiral servo information and a propagation state indicator onto the disk surface. The spiral servo information and propagation state indicator are used to perform a self-servo write operation on the disk surface.