Patent ID: 6091559
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A disk drive comprising a disk having a first magnetic surface, a first read/write transducer associated with said first surface for reading and writing data in tracks in a plurality of zones, each zone having a read/write frequency, a first load beam for supporting and positioning said first read/write transducer at a plurality of locations above said first surface, said disk drive produced using the steps of:(a) determining a track width of said first read/write transducer with respect to said first surface by performing a test of said read/write transducer;(b) writing servo information on said first surface at a track pitch which is a function of the track width determined in step (a);(c) determining the number of tracks available; and(d) defining radial boundaries of said plurality of recording zones and a read/write frequency for each zone on said first surface as a function of the number of available tracks.