Method to control spiral start point during ammonite servo track writer process using reference servo track band

摘要

a method for writing servo information onto a disk of a hard disk drive with a servo writer. The method includes writing a reference servo pattern onto a track of a disk. A head is then positioned relative to the reference servo pattern and a spiral servo track is written onto the disk. The process of positioning the head relative to the reference servo pattern and writing a spiral servo track can be repeated to create a plurality of spiral servo tracks on the disk. The spiral tracks are used to write radial servo patterns that are utilized during normal operation of the drive. The reference servo pattern allows each spiral track to start at a point with the same radial distance from the center of the disk. This improves the accuracy of the spiral tracks and the resultant final servo patterns.