公开(公告)号：US10210899B1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US15985430

申请日：2018-05-21

Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC

Inventor： Antonia Tsoukatos ,  Tim Rausch ,  Mehmet Fatih Erden ,  Benjamin W Parish ,  Prasanna Manja Ramakrishna ,  John D Reinhardt ,  Morovat Bryan Tayefeh

IPC: G11B27/36 ,  G11B20/18 ,  G11B5/596 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G11B5/455

Abstract: A method for scanning for flaws on a magnetic recording medium is disclosed. The magnetic recording medium has a first set of nonconsecutive data tracks and a second set of nonconsecutive data tracks. The method includes writing a test pattern to only the first set of nonconsecutive data tracks of the magnetic recording medium, reading of the test pattern written to the first set of nonconsecutive data tracks, and identifying flaws within the first set of nonconsecutive data tracks and the second set of nonconsecutive data tracks based on the reading the test pattern.