Appeal No. 1997-2855
Application No. 08/340,546
proximate to a load/unload ramp disposed at the outer
periphery of a data storage disk. A data zone starting
location on the disk is established proximate the ramp.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method of optimizing the location of a data
zone on a data storage disk of a data storage system, the
data storage system including a transducer assembly
mounted to an actuator for transferring information to
and from the disk, and a ramp disposed proximate the
outer periphery of the disk for unloading and loading the
transducer assembly to and from the disk, the method
comprising the steps of:
registering the transducer assembly at a first
location of the disk proximate the ramp;
writing servo information indicative of a
starting location of the data zone to the disk at the
first disk location;
moving the transducer assembly from the first
disk location toward an inner diameter location of the
disk; and
writing servo information indicative of the data
zone to the disk between the first disk location and the
inner diameter location of the disk with reference to the
first disk location;
wherein writing servo information indicative of
the starting location of the data zone at the first disk
location biases the data zone toward the outer periphery
of the data storage disk by registering the starting
location of the data zone proximate the ramp.
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