According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of manufacturing a disk device. The method includes acquiring information on a write width of a head. The method includes adjusting a seek speed of the head at a time of writing a spiral pattern to a disk according to the acquired write width.

Self-servo write (SSW) is performed in a disk drive while rotating disks at an SSW rotational speed, such that the resultant product servo patterns have near-zero coherent runout when rotating the disks at an operational rotational speed. The natural uncontrolled path of a magnetic head of the drive is characterized at the operational rotational speed and at the SSW rotational speed, and the difference between the two uncontrolled paths is injected into the servo loop to modify the path of the magnetic head during the SSW process. Specifically, the natural uncontrolled path of the magnetic head of the drive at the normal operating rotational speed is characterized with a first set of non-circularity values, and the natural uncontrolled path of the magnetic head of the drive at the SSW rotational speed is characterized with a second set of non-circularity values.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device includes a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head configured to record information on the magnetic recording medium, and a controller configured to control the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic head. The magnetic head includes a coil, a first magnetic pole configured to generate a magnetic field according to a recording current supplied to the coil, and a light emitting section configured to irradiate the magnetic recording medium with a light to locally increase a temperature of the magnetic recording medium. The controller is configured to perform a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation, the controller is configured to record a first servo position information in a first region of the magnetic recording medium. In the second operation, the controller is configured to perform a repair operation if a first condition is not satisfied.