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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2006
Applicants:
Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, CO (US);
Curtis W. Egan, Thornton, CO (US);
Inventors:
Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, CO (US);
Curtis W. Egan, Thornton, CO (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 method and apparatus for compensating for repeatable runout using wide embedded runout correction fields is provided. In one embodiment, a disk surface is provided with a write head associated therewith. The disk surface has a data track having a width. An embedded runout correction (ERC) field is written onto the disk surface, wherein the ERC field has a width that is greater than the width of the data track.