Patent ID: 7218471

Claim:
A method for writing servo data onto one or more surfaces of one or more disks within a disk drive without using a servo writing machine, comprising: writing a reference track including first servo data on a first disk surface using a first recording head of the disk drive, the reference track further including a first data set pattern used in writing subsequent servo data in the disk drive; using a macroactuator that is capable of adjusting the position of both the first recording head and a second recording head of the disk drive, tracking the reference track with the first recording head; and while the first recording head tracks the reference track, using a microactuator of the second recording head to: radially displace the second recording head from the first recording head and the reference track; and write second servo data and a second data set pattern on a second disk surface, the second data set pattern used in writing subsequent servo data on a subsequent track in the disk drive.