Patent ID: 7167335

Claim:
A system for writing position information to a rotating medium, comprising: a rotatable medium capable of storing information written to the rotatable medium, the rotatable medium having an inner diameter and an outer diameter; a write element capable of writing information to the rotatable medium; and a control mechanism adapted to rotate the rotatable medium and position the write element relative to the rotatable medium, such that the write element can: write at least a portion of a first servo burst during a first pass of a write element over a rotating medium; trim at least a portion of a first servo burst during a second pass of the write element; and write at least a portion of a second servo burst during one of the second pass and a third pass of the write element, wherein one of the second and the third pass used to write at least a portion of the second servo burst being determined by the location of the second servo burst relative to at least one of the inner diameter and outer diameter.