Methods for conditional servowriting

A method of writing a track of servo information to a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a first distance between a first location of a write element and a first desired write location;
• and
• inhibiting writing of servo information for the track when the first distance exceeds a threshold distance;
• wherein at least a second distance between a second location of the write element and a second desired write location is determined when writing is inhibited, whereby writing can be resumed for the track when the second distance is within the threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information for each of the servo wedges and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising for each of the servo wedges:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information to be written for the servo wedge and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information for the servo wedge when the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a track of a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information for each of the servo wedges at the track and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information for each of the servo wedges at the track for which the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a track of a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising for each of the servo wedges:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information to be written for the servo wedge at the track and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information to the servo wedge at the track when the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of performing a servowriting pass for a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information to be written during the servowriting pass for each of the servo wedges and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information to be written during the servowriting pass for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of performing a servowriting pass for a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising for each of the servo wedges:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information to be written for the servo wedge during the servowriting pass and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• determining whether the distance is greater than a threshold distance;
• and
• inhibiting writing of the servo information to be written for the servo wedge during the servowriting pass when the distance is greater than the threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a track of servo information to a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a position-error of a write element;
• determining a direction of the position-error;
• when the direction of the position-error is in a direction of servowriting propagation:
• determining whether the position-error is within a first threshold;
• inhibiting writing of servo information to the track by the write element when the position-error is not within the first threshold;
• resuming writing of servo information to the track after the position-error is determined to be within the first threshold;
• when the direction of the position-error is in a direction opposite to servowriting propagation:
• determining whether the position-error is within a second threshold;
• inhibiting writing of servo information to the track by the write element when the position-error is not within the second threshold;
• and
• resuming writing of servo information to the track after the position-error is determined to be within the second threshold.

A method of servowriting a track of servo information to a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information for each of the servo wedges and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• writing and trimming servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is less than a first threshold distance;
• writing or trimming servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the first threshold distance and less than a second threshold distance;
• inhibiting writing and trimming of servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the second threshold distance.

A method of servowriting a track of servo information to a rotatable storage medium having a plurality of servo wedges, comprising:

• determining a distance between a desired location of servo information for each of the servo wedges and a location of a write element adapted to write the servo information;
• writing and trimming servo information using write current variation for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is less than a first threshold distance;
• writing or trimming servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the first threshold distance and less than a second threshold distance;
• inhibiting writing and trimming of servo information for each of the servo wedges for which the distance is greater than the second threshold distance.