Patent ID: 7046465
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk drive, comprising: a spindle motor; a disk mounted for rotation on the spindle motor, the disk including a recording surface having a track that includes a first full servo wedge and a second full servo wedge, each of the first full and second full servo wedges defining a leading end and a trailing end and having, between leading and trailing ends, a preamble, a servo sync word, a track ID, and a plurality of servo positioning burst fields, the recording surface further including user addressable data locations and a first partial servo wedge disposed between the trailing end of the first full servo wedge and the leading end of the second full servo wedge, the first partial servo wedge being devoid of preamble, track ID and wedge ID and including a short servo sync mark that is different from the servo sync word, the servo sync mark defining a predetermined bit pattern that is immediately followed by a plurality of servo bursts, and a head for reading from and writing to the disk.