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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Stephen L. Schmidt, Milpitas, CA (US);
Charles L. Taylor, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Herman R. Wendt, Vista, CA (US);
Farokh Ziari, Fremont, CA (US);
Stephen L. Schmidt, Milpitas, CA (US);
Charles L. Taylor, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Herman R. Wendt, Vista, CA (US);
Farokh Ziari, Fremont, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to maintaining an acceptable level of relative humidity inside of a disk drive. According to one embodiment, clean dry air is blow over a cover of the disk drive. The cover includes an unsealed servo write slot. The amount of clean dry air blown over the cover is regulated while a servo write process is performed so that a portion of the clean dry air is introduced into the disk drive.