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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009

Filed:

May. 14, 2008
Applicants:

Yakov M. Lifchits, San Jose, CA (US);

Lawrence M. Bryant, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Siri S. Weerasooriya, Campbell, CA (US);

Wing Ying, Fremont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yakov M. Lifchits, San Jose, CA (US);

Lawrence M. Bryant, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Siri S. Weerasooriya, Campbell, CA (US);

Wing Ying, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01); G11B 20/20 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A disk drive is disclosed comprising control circuitry for self servo writing a disk. An estimated reader/writer offset is initialized, servo bursts in a first servo track are read, the head is moved radially using the estimated reader/writer offset, and propagated servo bursts are written to a target servo track. The propagated servo bursts are read from the target servo track to generate a read signal, the read signal is processed to generate a burst crossing signal (BCS), and the estimated reader/writer offset is adjusted in response to the BCS.


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