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Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2004
Applicants:

Blake O. Finstad, San Juan Bautista, CA (US);

Gary A. Herbst, San Jose, CA (US);

Kishan K. Kumbia, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Mark D. Schultz, Ossining, NY (US);

Scott A. Thomas, San Jose, CA (US);

Satoshi Yamamoto, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Blake O. Finstad, San Juan Bautista, CA (US);

Gary A. Herbst, San Jose, CA (US);

Kishan K. Kumbia, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Mark D. Schultz, Ossining, NY (US);

Scott A. Thomas, San Jose, CA (US);

Satoshi Yamamoto, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing combined radial and timing multislot self-servowrite propagation is disclosed. Radial bursts are combined with each timing mark and requires only three recovery/read-write spacing allocations per sector. The channel operates without requiring the writing of any bursts between reading radial bursts.


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