Servo fields
Servo fields are necessary for operation of a servo system used by the driving assembly of magnetic heads in a HDD; they serve for heads’ positioning and keeping them precisely over a defined track. Servo fields are recorded during the manufacturing process to an already assembled HDA through special service openings in its case. The openings are subsequently closed with sticky labels that read: Warning! DO NOT OPEN. The recording is actually performed using drive’s own heads in a special high-precision instrument – servo writer. Relocation of heads’ positioner is achieved through a motion of a special pusher of the servo writer using steady steps much smaller than the intervals between tracks.