Disk drive with cleaning device, and cleaning method

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1993-09-30

1995-06-13

Psitos, Aristotelis

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the record

360 7303, 360128, 360137, G11B 1548

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054248841

ABSTRACT:
A disk device with a cleaning device and a cleaning method according to the present invention include cleaning motor control means for rotating a disk oppositely to a direction of rotation of the disk in recording and regeneration, and seeking means for forcing a slider to seek the disk over a whole recording region during the opposite rotation of the disk to permit any dust to adhere to the slider, whereby a motor is started and stopped (contract-start-stop) after cleaning the recording region, so as to force the dust adhering to the slider to fall on a disk surface for cleaning the slider.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3609721 (1971-09-01), Meneley
patent: 4510541 (1985-04-01), Sasamoto
patent: 4594617 (1986-06-01), Tezuka
"Engineering Design of a Disk Storage Facility with Data Modules" R. B. Mulvany, Nov., 1974, Design of IBM 3340 and 3348, pp. 489-505.

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