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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian P. Rigney, Louisville, CO (US);
Jianbin Nie, Fremont, CA (US);
Stanley H. Shepherd, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/55 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/5547 (2013.01);
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) configured to actuate a head over a disk. The VCM is controlled to seek the head over the disk during a first seek, and a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage generated by the VCM during the first seek is measured. Feed-forward compensation is generated based on the measured BEMF voltage, and the VCM is controlled to seek the head over the disk during a second seek using the feed-forward compensation while writing servo data to the disk.