Patent ID: 6714372
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a disk drive formed from a head disk assembly (HDA) containing at least one magnetic disk with a magnetic surface and a head stack assembly (HSA) that includes a transducer head with a write element for writing data to the magnetic disk and a read element for reading data from the magnetic disk, the method comprising the steps of:mounting the HDA in a servo track writer and moving the HSA to desired positions over the magnetic disk while writing servo tracks onto the magnetic disk to define a data track pitch; measuring a width of the read element with the servo track writer; and determining a write unsafe (WUS) limit based on the data track pitch and the measured width of the read element being within a discrete number of predefined width ranges, the WUS limit corresponding to a maximum position error permitted before writing is disabled.