Westman, Champlin & Koehler, P.A.
Adaptive guard band for multiple heads of a data storage device
An adaptive guard band scheme is disclosed for a data storage device. In illustrated embodiments, the adaptive guard band scheme formats different guard band cylinders and track zeros for different heads depending upon a contact cylinder of the different heads. In an illustrative embodiment, the adaptive guard band scheme utilizes the contact cylinders for the heads and a no fly cylinder to determine track zero(s) and extended data zone(s) for select heads.
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Daniel D. Wei W. Richard Garner Joshua W. Subra
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