A circuit may be configured to reduce the amount of space used on a storage device when a transducer having a reader and writer passes from a writable data field to a read-only field by enabling both the reader and writer simultaneously. The circuit can be configured to reduce to a threshold level the noise on a read signal that can occur when the reader is over a read-only field and the writer is over a writable data field, and can ignore the read data when both the writer and reader are enabled simultaneously over a writable data field.