Fixed disk drive

Details Fixed disk drive Fixed disk drive

1989-06-09

1990-04-24

Tupper, Robert S.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the head

360 7703, 360 7807, 360 7811, 360106, 310 49R, G11B 2108, G11B 2110, H02K 3700

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049204343

ABSTRACT:
A higher performance, higher capacity, low cost fixed (Winchester) disk drive avoids the need of a servo surface and servo channel for head positioning by use of a mass balanced rotary actuator, a polyphase optical head position transducer coupled closely to the actuator and head position correction information sampled from the data surface by the data head.

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