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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Applicants:
John Yin Kwong LI, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
David Dung Tien Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Inventors:
John Yin Kwong Li, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
David Dung Tien Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention may be embodied in a magnetic disk, of a disk drive, having eight-bit fields storing wedge repeatable runout (WRRO) compensation values and redundancy information. The WRRO compensation value of each field includes a six-bit binary value of which five bits represent a compensation magnitude and one bit represents a sign bit indicating a compensation direction. The redundancy information of each field has a first bit based on the sign bit.