Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Automatic control of a recorder mechanism – Controlling the head
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-11
2007-09-11
Wong, K. (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Automatic control of a recorder mechanism
Controlling the head
Reexamination Certificate
active
10887751
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for estimating the flyheight of an airbearing slider in a storage device. The slider floats on an airbearing over a rotating storage disk. The storage disk includes a washboard-sequence having washboard-sections each comprising surface profile variations having a different pitch. The pitches are selected from within a range of values likely to excite an airbearing resonance of the slider as the storage disk rotates at a rated storage disk velocity. For each of the washboard-sections, a maximum amplitude of flyheight modulation of the slider resulting from the slider floating over that washboard-section is measured. A determination is made of which washboard-section caused the largest measured flyheight modulation. The washboard-section having a pitch that provides an excitation frequency (when the disk is rotated at the rated storage disk velocity) that is closest to the actual airbearing resonance frequency of the slider will produce the largest flyheight modulation. The result of this determination is used to estimate the flyheight of the slider. For example, the flyheight may be estimated using an empirical formula that relates the flyheight and the resonance frequency. Once the flyheight is estimated, a determination may be made of whether the flyheight is unsatisfactory, e.g., below a minimum flyheight or decreasing. Appropriate action may be taken when the flyheight is unsatisfactory, such as notifying the user and/or scrubbing the slider. Accordingly, catastrophic head-crash may be avoided and the useful life of the storage device extended.
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Brannon James Hammond
Ottesen Hal Hjalmar
Smith Gordon James
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Nader Rambod
Wong K.
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