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Methods and systems for self-servowriting including maintaining a reference level within a usable dynamic range

  • US 6,031,680 A
  • Filed: 03/20/1998
  • Issued: 02/29/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for writing product servo-pattern bursts in a self-servowriting system having a storage medium with a plurality of tracks for holding bursts therein, said method comprising:

  • writing a first product servo-pattern burst in a first track of the plurality of tracks; and

    writing a second sequential product servo-pattern burst in a second track of the plurality of tracks while servoing to a third propagation burst located in a third track of the plurality of tracks, said third track of the plurality of tracks located intermediate said first track and said second track.

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