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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Applicants:
Stan Shepherd, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Nathan J. Hays, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stan Shepherd, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Nathan J. Hays, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/596 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disk drive includes a head and a disk, spiral patterns are located on the disk, and the disk drive self-writes servo patterns on the disk using the spiral patterns as a reference for servoing the head. In an embodiment, the disk drive uses preliminary servo patterns to determine repeatable runout of the spiral patterns. In another embodiment, the disk drive reads each spiral pattern with multiple timing windows.