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Recording disk and disk drive

US7724464B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 10, 2008
Grant dateMay 25, 2010
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Expiry dateJan 10, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/59633
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a recording disk capable of curtailing the amount of servo data to be stored thereon, and a disk drive. According to one embodiment, servo data area sets each of a first servo data area and plural second servo data areas arranged in that order in a read direction HR are arranged successively on each of tracks of a magnetic disk. Stored in a second sector data section included in the second servo data area is data representing a distance in the read direction HR from the position of the first servo data area to that of the same second servo data area. The amount of data stored in the second sector data section is less than that of data stored in a first sector data section included in the first servo data area.

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