摘要 |
A method for identifying victim tracks distanced from an aggressor track in a hard disk drive that are deleteriously affected by long range fringe effects causing adjacent track interference (ATI) when the aggressor track is written includes writing first and second frequencies to candidate victim tracks, and writing a third frequency to the aggressor track. The amplitudes of the remaining frequencies are read and output and if desired normalized as an indication of ATI to distant victim tracks. Or, data can be written and on-track error rates (OTER) used to determine ATI.
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