Magnetic disk drive

Details Magnetic disk drive Magnetic disk drive

2006-12-21

2010-10-05

Mercedes, Dismery E (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General processing of a digital signal

Data clocking

C360S031000, C360S048000, C360S060000, C360S075000, C360S077020

Reexamination Certificate

active

07808737

ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of controlling write/read positions by a method that takes the disturbance in the circumferential direction of a magnetic disk into consideration, thereby making it possible to improve the positioning accuracy. A magnetic disk drive in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a magnetic recording medium on which information is written to each track thereof, the recording medium having a servo signal formed in the each track at specified intervals; a magnetic head including a read head for reading a signal from the magnetic recording medium, and a write head for writing information to the magnetic recording medium. At the time of writing/reading information by the magnetic head, a servo signal is detected from among signals read out by the read head. Information about intervals of the detection is continuously acquired on the basis of the information about the servo-signal detection intervals that have been continuously acquired. The amount of rotational fluctuations of a magnetic disk is calculated; and if the amount of rotational fluctuations exceeds the predetermined allowable range, specified processing relating to at least one of writing and reading is stopped.

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