Spacing measurement improvement in the presence of track mis-registration

• Main Authors: SAITO KAZUHIRO, HANSON WELDON M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.06.2016
• Subjects: INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS

Techniques for determining a relative spacing between a read head and a surface of a magnetic data storage device may use at least two magnetic spacing measurement patterns. A first magnetic spacing measurement pattern may be offset from a center of a data track by a first offset value and a second...