Adaptive track seeking for disk drives

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1992-11-23

1994-04-19

Hajec, Donald

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the head

G11B 5596

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053051610

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for optimizing the track seeking operation of disc drives by adaptively changing the seek velocity profile in response to the actual performance of the drive during track seeking operations based upon the amount of head overshoot and the actuator power dissipation.

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