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Magnetic disk apparatus

US5305159A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 1991
Grant dateApr 19, 1994
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/59655
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disk system has a disk as a recording medium, and a disk recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data by a head radially movable provided on a disk by a head moving mechanism, and the disk has a first region formed with a servo sector having servo information along a data track for recording and reproducing data on a disk, second regions having servo sectors having servo information along a servo track and of the number of magnification of integer number of the servo sectors in the first region, and the disk recording/reproducing apparatus has, position detecting section placed on the moving portion of the head moving mechanism for detecting the moving position of a head to output a position signal representing the head position in the radial direction of the disk, memory section for storing "head follow-up information" for a servo track obtained from the position signal in the state that the head is positioned on the servo track, and section for controlling to follow up the head to the data track by using "first track follow-up error information" obtained by servo information read from the servo sector immediately after the head is passed over the servo sec…

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