Calibration of reader/writer offset in hard disk drive using shingled recording

• Main Authors: TAKASHI TERUMI, TSUCHINAGA HIROYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.02.2007
• Subjects: INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS

Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive that is capable of determining the offset of a magnetic head position through simple and easy processing in a case where the shingle write method is adopted, and that is capable of increasing the accuracy. In one embodiment, a disk drive comprises: a...