Timing recovery in the read channel synchronizes to a phase and frequency of the preamble field and a sync detector detects the sync mark in order to frame operation of {HEAD ~ an RLL decoder} for decoding {TAIL ~ the detected data field} 
Timing recovery in the read channel synchronizes to a phase and frequency of the preamble field and a sync detector detects the sync mark in order to frame operation of { HEAD ~ an RLL decoder } for decoding { TAIL ~ the detected data field }
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