Servo writing with offset compensation for prewritten reference
View Patent ↗In accordance with various embodiments, a rotatable member is mounted to a spindle hub so that initial servo data previously provided to the rotatable member are eccentrically offset with respect to a rotational center of the spindle hub. Compensation vales are determined to characterize said offset, after which final servo data are provided to the rotatable member in relation to the initial servo data and the determined compensation values. The final servo data are nominally concentric with the rotational center of the spindle hub.
1. A method comprising:
bulk writing initial servo data to each of a plurality of rotatable members by mounting said plurality of rotatable members onto a first spindle hub and writing the initial servo data so as to be nominally concentric with a rotational center of the first spindle hub;
mounting a selected rotatable member of said plurality to a second spindle hub so that the initial servo data are eccentrically offset with respect to a rotational center of the second spindle hub;
determining compensation values to characterize said offset; and
providing final servo data to the selected rotatable member in relation to the initial servo data and the determined compensation values, the final servo data nominally concentric with the rotational center of the second spindle hub.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining step comprises identifying absolute position and timing references associated with the initial servo data.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bulk writing step comprises removing the plurality of rotatable members from the bulk writer spindle hub.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining step comprises capturing a 1F eccentricity of the initial servo data and establishing timing and position compensation values in relation to the captured 1F eccentricity.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining step further comprises measuring an effective stroke length of the initial servo data across a radial extent of the selected rotatable member from an outermost diameter (OD) to an innermost diameter (ID) of a recording surface thereof.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the initial servo data are characterized as a plurality of spaced apart servo spirals that radially extend from an outermost diameter (OD) to an innermost diameter (ID) of a recording surface of the selected rotational member.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the final servo data are characterized as a plurality of spaced apart servo wedges that radially extend from the OD to the ID.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein a total number of said spaced apart servo spirals is greater than a total number of said spaced apart servo wedges.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selected rotatable member is characterized as a storage medium and the second spindle hub is characterized as a spindle hub of a data storage device, and wherein the providing step uses a radially positionable transducer of the data storage device to write the final servo data to the storage medium.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the selected rotatable member is characterized as a first storage medium, and wherein the mounting, determining and providing steps are concurrently performed upon a second storage medium installed in axial alignment with the first storage medium.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the providing step comprises bulk writing the final servo data at the same time to a plurality of axially spaced apart recording surfaces mounted to the second spindle hub.
12. An apparatus comprising:
a rotatable member mounted to a spindle hub so that initial servo data previously provided to the rotatable member are eccentrically offset with respect to a rotational center of the spindle hub; and
a controller which determines compensation values to characterize said offset and which provides final servo data to the rotatable member in relation to the initial servo data and the determined compensation values, the final servo data nominally concentric with the rotational center of the spindle hub, wherein the controller further measures an effective stroke length of the initial servo data across a radial extent of the rotatable member from an outermost diameter (OD) to an innermost diameter (ID) of a recording surface thereof.
13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the rotatable member is processed by a bulk writer to provide the initial servo data thereon prior to being mounted to the spindle hub.
14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the controller captures a 1F eccentricity of the initial servo data and establishes timing and position compensation values in relation to the captured 1F eccentricity.
15. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the controller further operates to identify absolute position and timing references associated with the initial servo data.
16. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the initial servo data are characterized as a plurality of spaced apart servo spirals that radially extend from an outer diameter (OD) to an inner diameter (ID) of a recording surface of the rotational member.
17. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the final servo data are characterized as a plurality of spaced apart servo wedges that radially extend from the OD to the ID.
18. The apparatus of claim 12 characterized as a data storage device so that the rotatable member comprises a storage medium, the spindle hub forms a portion of a spindle motor of the data storage device, and wherein the data storage device further comprises a radially positionable transducer used to write the final servo data to the storage medium.
19. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the controller is further configured to direct the bulk writing of the final servo data at the same time to a plurality of axially spaced apart recording surfaces mounted to the hub.
20. An apparatus comprising:
a rotatable member mounted to a spindle hub so that initial servo data previously provided to the rotatable member are eccentrically offset with respect to a rotational center of the spindle hub; and
a controller which provides final servo data to the rotatable member nominally concentric with the rotational center of the spindle hub in relation to the initial servo data and compensation values which characterize said offset, wherein the controller comprises a timing compensation block which generates compensated timing data at a nominally constant frequency by applying the compensation values to raw timing data obtained from the eccentrically offset initial servo data, the raw timing data having a once-per-revolution cyclical frequency drift.
21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the servo circuit further comprises a timing control block responsive to the timing compensation block which generates an absolute timing reference from the compensated timing data.
22. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the controller further measures an effective stroke length of the initial servo data across a radial extent of the rotatable member from an outermost diameter (OD) to an innermost diameter (ID) of a recording surface thereof.