J. Fitzpatrick et al., THE RELATIONSHIP OF MEDIUM NOISE TO SYSTEM ERROR RATE IN A PRML CHANNEL, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(6), 1994, pp. 3990-3995
High density disk drive systems utilize fine grain polycrystalline thi
n films as a storage medium. These films exhibit noise that is pattern
dependent and has appreciable magnitude near the center of each recor
ded transition. A model for error rates in a PRML channel is presented
to explore how variations in medium noise parameters effect system pe
rformance. The channel is assumed to be characterized by both pattern
dependent nonstationary medium noise and white Gaussian electronic and
/or head noise. Results are presented in terms of both error rate and
sensitivity of error rate to changes in medium parameters.