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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2004
Applicants:
George Anthony Dunn, San Jose, CA (US);
Weining Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
George Anthony Dunn, San Jose, CA (US);
Weining Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 5/02 (2006.01); G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Format efficiency of a hard disk of a hard disk drive having a rotary actuator and a read/write head having a read element that is offset from a write element is improved by writing a data track having a length that is based on an arc of the rotary actuator, the radial position of the read/write head with respect to the hard disk and the offset between the read element and the write element.