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Magnetic disk unit control method for removing dust from a disk

US5461521A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 1992
Grant dateOct 24, 1995
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B19/20
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a magnetic disk unit, a magnetic head slider member for holding a magnetic head is floated from a recording face of a magnetic disk by an air flow caused by a high speed rotation of the magnetic disk. The magnetic disk unit has a magnetic head moving device for rotatably supporting the magnetic head slider member and positioning the magnetic head in a radial direction of the magnetic disk. A control method of the magnetic disk unit has the steps of reciprocating the magnetic head slider member a predetermined number of times at a high speed in a predetermined range in the radial direction of the magnetic disk by using a position of the magnetic head slider member as a reference in the radial direction of the magnetic disk provided when it is detected that a data error is included in reproduced data at a reproducing time of recorded data; and again reproducing the same recorded data after the reciprocating movement of the magnetic head slider member. Other control methods of the magnetic disk unit are also shown.

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