Abstract:
The magnetic head (20), and method of its construction, for placing multiple, high tolerance servo information tracks (36) in evenly spaced configuration across the width of a magnetic medium (32) in a single pass of the magnetic head over the medium. The head comprises a monitoring fixture which secures a full-width write transducer (24), in tandem with a multiple-track write transducer (26). Preferably, the transducers are angularly skewed with respect to the travel direction of the magnetic medium, but are substantially parallel to each other. In operation, the magnetic medium first passes adjacent the full-width write transducer which writes servo pattern across the width of the magnetic medium at a first frequency. The magnetic medium next passes adjacent the multiple-track write transducer which writes servo information onto multiple tracks in the magnetic medium at a second frequency.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording system using a dual layer magnetic medium with the servo tracks (30, 32) in the servo layer (26) being recorded at a first azimuth and the data tracks (38) in the data layer (28) being recorded at a different azimuth than the servo tracks (30, 32) to avoid interference between the servo and data information. The servo tracks (30, 32) are recorded with one of two frequencies, with adjacent servo tracks (30, 32) having different frequencies. The servo tracks (30, 32) are read by a first transducer (46) having the same azimuth as the servo tracks (30, 32) to generate a positioning error to control transducer position. The servo information is also used to control synchronization during reading and writing by the data transducer (48).