Patent ID: 6987637

Claim:
A perpendicular magnetic recording system comprising: a perpendicular magnetic recording disk including magnetic recording tracks; a perpendicular magnetic recording head including a perpendicular write pole movable in an arc across the perpendicular magnetic recording disk; and means for moving the write pole radially outward across at least a portion of the disk for sequentially writing with the write pole onto adjacent magnetic recording tracks of the perpendicular magnetic recording disk to thereby substantially eliminate a skew angle effect; and wherein the write pole is aligned at a first compensation angle A 1 with respect to the magnetic recording tracks when the write pole is located over an inward portion of the disk, the write pole is aligned at a second compensation angle A 2 with respect to the magnetic recording tracks when the write pole is located over an outward portion of the disk, the first compensation angle A 1 is from about 5 to about 15 degrees, and the second compensation angle A 2 is greater than about 1 degree.