The invention includes a testing method which may be applied to at least one
writer in a disk drive during the self-test phase to generate write parameters,
focused on the Over Shoot Control (OSC) of the write current parameter to improve
the reliability of write operations by that writer. The Minimum OSC is used for
write operations in normal temperatures. The Optimum OSC is used for a first lower
temperature range, preferably between essentially 15 Centigrade and essentially
5 Centigrade. The Maximum OSC is preferred below essentially 5 C. The
Minimum OSC should preferably guarantee both an Adjacent Track Write (ATW) criteria,
as well as guarantee a Write Induced Instability (WII) criteria. The invention
includes the write parameter collection, as well as the disk drive containing the
generated write parameter collection. The invention also includes the method of
using that write parameter collection to control a writer while writing to tracks
belonging to the radial zone collection and program systems implementing the invention's methods.