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| 8189282 | Servo patterns for patterned media Servo patterns for patterned media. The servo pattern includes specification of cylinder/track ID with and without a Gray code. The servo pattern space is minimized by the optimum usage of the islands. This is achieved by island allocation rules to take advantage of... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179627 | Floating guard band for shingle magnetic recording A hard disk drive that includes a disk with data written onto a plurality of tracks, a spindle motor that rotates the disk, and a head that is coupled to the disk. The disk drive also includes a circuit that writes data onto a first writable shingle band of tracks i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169728 | Magnetic medium having an artificial pattern structure using a gradient of a magnetization reversal field and a method of use thereof To avoid the occurrence of a recording error by suppressing the influence that a magneto-static interaction acting between the pattern dots exerts on a recording process and expand a margin for recording synchronization timing lag or tracking misregistration on the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169727 | Apparatus and method for stabilizing slider flying height over a discrete track media disk surface in a hard disk drive This application discloses a hard disk drive and a disk employing Discrete Tracks each including a land with a groove at a first depth with sectors of each track separated by servo pattern wedges with a variable second land and a variable second groove possessing wi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154813 | Embedded servo on track for bit-patterned device A method of making a disc for a computer disc drive and a disc made in accordance with the same. The disc includes a deposited magnetic layer of a thin film medium over a disc-shaped substrate. A master pattern having a plurality of tracks is recorded on the disc. E... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144414 | Data interleaving in tape drives Methods and apparatus for interleaving data in a multitrack tape drive and for writing data on a multitrack tape in the tape drive. One method includes: partitioning the data into m(2n+k) data blocks, where each data block has a logical array of rows and ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139304 | Tape layout design for reliable ECC decoding A method for physically laying out data on tape is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving a data set, wherein the data set includes S sub data sets (SDSs) of fixed size and each SDS includes N codeword interleaves (CWIs). The method fu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139303 | Method for production of magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproduction device A method for the production of a magnetic recording medium includes the steps of forming a magnetic layer on a nonmagnetic substrate, injecting atoms into portions of the magnetic layer to cause the portions to be demagnetized or allowed to acquire amorphousness, th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125725 | Recording medium and recording apparatus for using test data recorded in a blank zone to refine data recording Methods, systems and computer program products for measuring a distance between a write head and a read head are described. The measured distance allows the position of the write head (e.g., during writing) and read head (e.g., during reading) to be compensated. The... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120869 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording medium having a magnetic pattern magnetically partitioning a magnetic layer, formed on a non-magnetic substrate, wherein the magnetic pattern is comprised of magnetic regions and non-magnetic regions surrounding each of the magnetic regions, the... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120868 | Data storage medium having system data stored in a guard band between zones of consecutive data storage tracks A storage medium format is provided having a first band of a plurality of consecutive data storage tracks having user data stored thereto, a second band of a plurality of consecutive data storage tracks having other user data stored thereto, and a guard track medial... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116022 | Magnetic recording apparatus, magnetic recording medium, and method of testing magnetic recording apparatus According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus includes a magnetic recording medium including magnetically recordable recording tracks with a width L1, non-recording sections each provided between adjacent recording tracks, and a wide land track ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111475 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording apparatus According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium to which a signal is recorded by reversing magnetization of a magnetic body, includes: a servo region to which a servo signal is written; a data region configured to include a magnetic region of a track to whi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111474 | Eccentricity correction method, signal processing circuit, magnetic storage apparatus and perpendicular magnetic recording medium A magnetic storage apparatus has a reproducing head to reproduce information from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that is recorded with servo information, eccentricity correction data and read/write data. The apparatus further has a filter part to filter a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098448 | Method for setting zone format of a disk for storing data and disk drive A method for dividing a data area on a disk into a plurality of concentric zones and determining a format for each zone so that data tracks in the zone have the same number of data sectors. The method includes dividing a data area into a plurality of zones with prov... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089716 | Magnetic tape, magnetic tape apparatus, servo pattern recording apparatus, magnetic tape producing method, and magnetic tape recording method Provided is a magnetic tape that includes a data band, including servo patterns, data, and a guard space. The servo patterns is formed along a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape with an interval provided between each of the servo patterns, each of the servo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089715 | Split sector formatting of storage disks Formatting a storage disk is disclosed. A first portion of a sector of the storage disk is defined. The first portion precedes a defect and has a first length that varies based on a detected location of the defect. A second portion of the sector of the storage disk ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085487 | Blocking formats for a disk drive that reduce performance A method is disclosed for selecting a format for a disk surface of a disk drive, the disk drive comprising the disk surface, and a head actuated over the disk surface. A first TPI is selected for the disk surface, and then evaluated to determine whether it is compat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077416 | Magnetic recording medium formatted with ROM and RAM regions A magnetic recording medium has a RAM region and a ROM region. The RAM region includes a plurality of first tracks each having a first magnetic portion. The first magnetic portions in adjacent tracks are separated from each other. The ROM region includes a plurality... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068301 | Magnetic media formed by a thin film planar arbitrary gap pattern magnetic head Magnetic media made using planar magnetic heads. A head may comprise a substrate having conductive thru-hole vias extending therethrough, a first magnetic layer deposited and patterned on the substrate, a first insulation layer deposited and patterned on the first m... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068302 | Method of formatting magnetic media using a thin film planar arbitrary gap pattern magnetic head Methods of formatting media using planar magnetic heads. A head may comprise a substrate having conductive thru-hole vias extending therethrough, a first magnetic layer deposited and patterned on the substrate, a first insulation layer deposited and patterned on the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068300 | Thin film planar arbitrary gap pattern magnetic head Planar magnetic heads and methods of making the same using a built-up approach and thru-hole via technology to achieve a true planar head. A head may comprise a substrate having conductive thru-hole vias extending therethrough, a first magnetic layer deposited and p... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068303 | Lateral partitioning for a shingled tape format Various embodiments for writing data in a tape medium having wraps by a tape drive are provided. The tape drive allocates the wraps in a shingled data band between two or more data partitions. A set of contiguous wraps is allocated to one data partition of the two o... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059352 | Patterned-media magnetic recording disk with cryptographically scrambled patterns and disk drive operable with the disk Patterned-media magnetic recording disks are made from a master template that has nondata regions that contain a pattern of one or more discrete nondata islands and discrete gaps, with the pattern representing a scrambled number. All disks made from the master templ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059351 | Magnetic recording apparatus and magnetic recording medium According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus includes: an information recording module configured to record a predetermined number of lines of information with a predetermined length in an information recording region of a magnetic recording medium, e... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059350 | Patterned magnetic recording disk with patterned servo sectors having chevron servo patterns A patterned-media perpendicular magnetic recording disk has patterned servo regions and is nanoimprinted from a master mold made using directed self-assembly of block copolymers. The disk has patterned concentric circular data tracks of discrete data islands, with t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054568 | Synchronization of symmetric timing based servo bursts Timing based servo bursts of servo frames, in which the frames are arranged to be symmetric with the same number of servo stripes in each burst of a frame, are synchronized by shifting selected bits. For example, servo frames are arranged with four servo bursts with... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045284 | Bit patterned magnetic media data format In an implementation, a media drive comprises bit patterned magnetic media and one or more modules. The one or more modules are to cause data to be written on the bit patterned magnetic media in a data sector that includes a synchronization mark disposed between dat... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035909 | Coding technique for correcting media defect-related errors and random errors A method of writing data on a storage medium that takes into account a condition of the storage medium. The method includes receiving data to be written on a portion of a storage medium and encoding the data based on a condition of the portion of the storage medium.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031423 | Disk drive generating actual data TPI profile by combining segments of predetermined data TPI profiles A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk having a plurality of data tracks. An ideal data tracks per inch (TPI) profile is determined for the disk, and an actual data TPI profile is generated that estimates the ideal data TPI profile by combi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014095 | Mixed format disk drive A magnetic disk for a hard disk drive comprising a plurality of physical sector sizes is disclosed. The magnetic disk includes a first sector size area physically formatted according to a first physical sector size and a second sector size area physically formatted ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009377 | Tape architecture and a head architecture for a linear tape drive having a reduced actuator stroke A tape architecture and a head architecture for a linear tape drive having a reduced actuator stroke is disclosed. In one embodiment, the linear tape drive head assembly includes a top portion having a plurality of write elements and no read elements at a first side... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009376 | Disk drive device and method for determining data track format of the disk drive device Embodiments of the present invention help to improve the capacity and the performance of a disk drive device. According to one embodiment, a data track pitch is set to each recording surface. The recording surfaces are divided into bands. A hard disk drive (HDD) seq... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000048 | Magnetic recording disk and disk drive with track identification using phase-type servo patterns A magnetic recording disk drive has a disk with a head positioning servo pattern of multiple circumferentially-spaced chevron patterns of discrete patterned servo islands. The disk drive has servo electronics that decodes the chevron patterns to determine the absolu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990645 | Magnetic recording apparatus Provided is a magnetic recording apparatus including a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic recording position patterned of a magnetic substance and a read head reading information from the magnetic recording medium, wherein the magnetic recording medium incl... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982993 | Disk drive employing different servo TPI to data TPI ratios across the disk surface A disk drive is disclosed having a first disk surface, and a head actuated over the first disk surface. The first disk surface comprises a plurality of servo tracks and a plurality of data tracks. The data tracks of the first disk surface are banded together into a ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969680 | Magnetic tape on which a servo pattern is formed A magnetic tape of the present invention includes a plurality of data bands in which a data signal can be recorded and servo pattern portions composed of a burst signal. The servo pattern portions are formed at a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction of... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948700 | Bit patterned medium Provided is a bit patterned medium including bridges which induce exchange coupling between adjacent bits in order to reduce a switching field difference resulting from different magnetization directions of bits. The bridges and the bits are integrally formed with e... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948701 | Servo patterns for self-assembled island arrays Servo patterns and associated methods of fabricating servo patterns are described. For patterned storage media, data sectors and servo sectors may be patterned using self-assembly. In one embodiment, self-assembly is used to form a first array of islands and a secon... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933088 | Disk drive having a disk of discrete-track media type According to one embodiment, a disk drive has a DTM type disk. The DTM type disk has a servo area on one recording surface. In the servo area, a servo pattern is recorded. The servo pattern is composed of a projection-depression pattern and an N- and P-pole magnetic... | 04/26/2011 |
