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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2012
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Timothy John Everett, Niwot, CO (US);
James Bowling French, Jr., Longmont, CO (US);
Gary Allan Herbst, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony Edwin Welter, Rochester, MN (US);
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Disk drives are described in which the conventional write-to-read gap is omitted in selected sectors which frees up space that can be used for other purposes including writing a higher number of bits in the user data area in the gapless selected sectors. Alternative embodiments can use the additional space for servo information such as a repeatable run out (RRO) field. Conventional servo sector SID formats can be used for both gapped and gapless SIDs, which means that during seeking and reading operations full SIDs can be read for every wedge. The tradeoff for being able to write data much closer to the gapless SIDs is that the servo system does not detect the SAM or read the TID in the gapless SIDs during write operations.