Head and disk assembly for fixed disk drive

Details Head and disk assembly for fixed disk drive Head and disk assembly for fixed disk drive

1990-02-20

1991-01-01

Tupper, Robert S.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the head

G11B 2110, G11B 2108

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049822969

ABSTRACT:
A head and disk assembly for a fixed disk drive including control electronics and a host computer associated therewith comprises a frame and a cover for providing an interior space enclosed from the ambient; at least one data storage disk mounted within the interior space; the data storage disk having a data storage surface defining a multiplicity of concentric data storage tracks for storing user data and further defining factory prerecorded track centerline correction information which may be periodically sampled, held and processed by the control electronics; a disk rotation motor for rotating the disk relative to the frame at a predetermined angular velocity; a mass balanced, direct drive rotary actuator for positioning a data read/write head relative to the tracks in response to positioning signals supplied by the control electronics; an optical polyphase head position transducer coupled closely to the rotary actuator and the frame for generating plural phase cyclical signals e.g. in quandrature and for supplying the signals to the control electronics, at least four adjacent data track locations being included within a range of movement of the rotary actuator relative to the frame and disk within one cycle of one of the plural phases; whereby the control electronics may respond to commands from the host computer, to the plural phase cyclical signals and to the factory prerecorded track centerline correction information in order to generate and apply positioning signals to move the read/write head from track to track during seeking operations and to maintain the read/write head within within each data track during track following operations for reading and writing user data from and to a said track being followed.

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