A magnetic storage disk drive having a servo burst pattern which asymmetrically increases the linear region in which a read head may be micro-jogged from a burst pair center line to align the read head with a data track. The innovative servo pattern comprises a first pair of servo bursts that define a first burst pair centerline for writing a particular data track to a data track side of the first centerline, and a second pair of servo bursts collectively define a second burst pair centerline that is positioned to the data track side of the first burst pair centerline and is sufficiently close to the first burst pair center line so that the read head "sees" the second pair of servo bursts before "losing" the first pair of servo bursts when micro-jogged to the data track side for reading. The second burst pair centerline should be no farther from the first burst pair centerline than the linear read width of the read head. The preferred servo bursts span a full track pitch are arranged in a uniformly repeating pattern of A/B and C/D burst pairs. The first burst pair centerline may be defined by the A/B pairs in one annular disk region and by the C/D burst pairs in another annular disk region in order to asymmetrically expand the linear region in the direction needed for micro-jogging the read head in different directions within the respective annular regions.