Patent ID: 6912104

Claim:
A write head for simultaneously writing a plurality of timing-based servo tracks, said patterned write head comprising: a write element aligned to write a first set of first and second patterned symbols, which are different from each other, to a first servo track; and a write element aligned to write a second set of said first and said second patterned symbols to a second servo track; wherein said first set of patterned symbols and said second set of patterned symbols are written simultaneously; wherein a first portion of said first set and a first portion of said second set consist of at least one identical matched pair of said first patterned symbol and said second patterned symbol and said first portions are aligned to be written at the same longitudinal location; and wherein a second portion of said first set and a second portion of said second set contain unmatched ones of said first patterned symbol or unmatched ones of said second patterned symbol and said second portions contain either different ones of said first and second patterned lines or contain ones of said patterned lines written at different longitudinal points on said tape.