Granted Patent B1

US 9,454,989 · App. 14/644,415 · Granted Sep 27, 2016

Abstract

Claims (27)

1. A disk drive comprising:

a disk comprising a plurality of servo sectors defining a plurality of servo tracks, wherein:

the servo tracks form a plurality of servo zones; and

a servo data rate of servo sectors in a first servo zone is different than a servo data rate of servo sectors in a second servo zone;

a head actuated radially over the disk; and

control circuitry comprising a plurality of read channels where each read channel comprises an equalizer configured to equalize signal samples of the second read signal to generate equalized samples, the control circuitry operable to:

receive a first read signal from the head while reading servo data from the servo sectors;

program each read channel with a unique configuration to process the first read signal in parallel, wherein each configuration corresponds to a servo data rate of a respective servo zone;

receive a second read signal from the head while reading servo data from the disk; and

program the equalizer of each read channel with a unique configuration to process the second read signal in parallel, wherein each configuration has a different propensity to recover the servo data from the equalized samples.

2. The disk drive as recited in claim 1 , wherein:

each read channel comprises a timing recovery circuit;

each timing recovery circuit generates a respective disk locked clock to a servo data rate;

the control circuitry is further operable to program the timing recovery circuit of each read channel with the unique configuration to process the first read signal in parallel; and

each configuration attempts to synchronize the respective disk locked clocks to the respective servo data rates of the servo zones.

3. The disk drive as recited in claim 2 , wherein the control circuitry is further operable to detect the servo zone the head is over in response to the read channel that successfully synchronizes the respective disk locked clock to the servo data rate of the servo zone the head is over.

4. A method of operating a disk drive, the disk drive comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of servo sectors defining a plurality of servo tracks, and a plurality of read channels, wherein each read channel comprises an equalizer configured to equalize signal samples of the second read signal to generate equalized samples, the servo tracks form a plurality of servo zones, and a servo data rate of servo sectors in a first servo zone is different than a servo data rate of servo sectors in a second servo zone, the method comprising:

receiving a first read signal from the head while reading servo data from the servo sectors;

programming each read channel with a unique configuration to process the first read signal in parallel, wherein each configuration corresponds to a servo data rate of a respective servo zone;

receiving a second read signal from the head while reading servo data from the disk; and

programming the equalizer of each read channel with a unique configuration to process the second read signal in parallel, wherein each configuration has a different propensity to recover the servo data from the equalized samples.

5. The method as recited in claim 4 , wherein:

each read channel comprises a timing recovery circuit;

each timing recovery circuit generates a respective disk locked clock to a servo data rate;

the method further comprises programming the timing recovery circuit of each read channel with the unique configuration to process the first read signal in parallel; and

each configuration attempts to synchronize the respective disk locked clocks to the respective servo data rates of the servo zones.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 , further comprising detecting the servo zone the head is over in response to the read channel that successfully synchronizes the respective disk locked clock to the servo data rate of the servo zone the head is over.

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