• DocumentCode
    2048352
  • Title

    A study on ECC for servo track identifiers

  • Author

    Subrahmanyam, J.N. ; Chue, J.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Western Digital Corp., San Jose, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    March 30 2003-April 3 2003
  • Lastpage
    23
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose a method to characterize head instabilities and propose the use of Gray Hamming, Golay, and Reed Solomon(RS) codes to deal with Track ID errors in the servo sector during write and read operations.
  • Keywords
    Golay codes; Gray codes; Hamming codes; Reed-Solomon codes; disc drives; error correction codes; magnetic heads; servomechanisms; ECC; Golay codes; Gray Hamming codes; Reed-Solomon codes; head instabilities; servo sector; servo track identifiers; track ID errors; Delay effects; Disk drives; Error correction codes; Histograms; Large Hadron Collider; Levee; Reflective binary codes; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Servomechanisms; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Magnetics Conference, 2003. INTERMAG 2003. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7647-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INTMAG.2003.1230530
  • Filename
    1230530