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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Minjie Ma, Bloomington, MN (US);
Edward Charles Gage, Lakeville, MN (US);
Kaizhong Gao, North Oaks, MN (US);
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 11/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 7/1263 (2012.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 11/105 (2006.01); G11B 7/126 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 7/1263 (2013.01); G11B 20/1217 (2013.01); G11B 7/126 (2013.01); G11B 11/10515 (2013.01); G11B 11/10595 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0021 (2013.01); G11B 2020/1232 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a controller configured to apply a writing configuration (WC) to a heat-assisted magnetic recording head to write data to a recording medium. The recording medium includes a plurality of sectors. The controller is further configured to determine an optimized WC for each of the plurality of sectors and initiate a write operation to one of the plurality of sectors. The write operation is configured to be performed by the head utilizing the optimized WC for the respective sector.