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US 10,706,882 B1Granted
Servo wedge skipping during track seeking
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorAbbas Ali
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Abstract
A method includes processing, via an integrated circuit, data read from a first servo wedge; processing, via the integrated circuit, data from a second servo wedge; and skipping processing data from a third servo wedge positioned between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- during a positioning operation,
- processing, via an integrated circuit operating at a first power level, data read from a first servo wedge,
- processing, via the integrated circuit operating at the first power level, data from a second servo wedge, and
- while operating the integrated circuit at a second power level, skipping processing data from a third servo wedge positioned between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge, wherein the integrated circuit consumes less power in the second power level compared to the first power level.
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An integrated circuit comprising:
- control circuitry configured to:
- predict a beginning of a first servo wedge, a second wedge, and a third servo wedge positioned between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge, and
- increase power consumption to process data read from the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge but not the third servo wedge.
A data storage device comprising:
- a magnetic recording medium including a first servo wedge, a second servo wedge, and a third servo wedge positioned between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge;
- and
- an integrated circuit configured to process data read from the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge but not the third servo wedge, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to increase power consumption to process data read from the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge but not the third servo wedge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.