摘要:
A method and apparatus for increasing the performance of disk drive access by delaying a pending data transfer operation to an individual disk drive (104) until immediately before start of the target sector so as to allow servicing of an intervening seek operation to another disk drive (106).
摘要:
A method and apparatus for increasing the performance of disk drive access by delaying a pending data transfer operation to an individual disk drive (104) until immediately before start of the target sector so as to allow servicing of an intervening seek operation to another disk drive (106).
摘要:
The method of the invention is performed on a disk drive with at least a rotatable disk and a head/arm mechanism movable thereover. The disk has a plurality of concentric tracks, including innermost and outermost tracks and an intermediate track positioned therebetween, with the intermediate track including often-used records. The method reduces movements of the head/arm mechanism through the steps of:
a. positioning the head/arm mechanism over the intermediate track; b. moving the head/arm mechanism away from the intermediate track to another track to perform a requested read operation; c. moving the head/arm mechanism back to the intermediate track from the further track and performing write actions in tracks over which the head/arm mechanism moves in its treaversal back to the intermediate track.
摘要:
The method of the invention is performed on a disk drive with at least a rotatable disk and a head/arm mechanism movable thereover. The disk has a plurality of concentric tracks, including innermost and outermost tracks and an intermediate track positioned therebetween, with the intermediate track including often-used records. The method reduces movements of the head/arm mechanism through the steps of :
a. positioning the head/arm mechanism over the intermediate track; b. moving the head/arm mechanism away from the intermediate track to another track to perform a requested read operation ; c. moving the head/arm mechanism back to the intermediate track from the further track and performing write actions in tracks over which the head/arm mechanism moves in its treaversal back to the intermediate track.
摘要:
A mode switching device in a disc playback device comprises a loading device (111) transferring a disc or a case (A) housing a disc between an eject position in which the disc or the disc case is inserted and ejected and a palyback position in which the disc is palyed, a feed device (92) for feeding a pickup head (81) reading data recorded on the disc set in a playback position and a mode switching device (112) for switching the made between loading, eject and palyback mades. The feed device can move across an overstroke region extending radially outwardly of a read-out position of the pickup head and the mode switching device performs switching of the mode when the feed device has reached a predetermined position in the overstroke region.
摘要:
A lens holder (75) is provided with objective lenses (34, 35) of different types. Rotating the lens holder (75) causes one of the objective lenses (34, 35) to be placed in the optical path of the laser beam. Near one objective lens (35), there is provided a reflecting element (92) that reflects part of the laser beam directed to the objective lens (35). When the objective lens (35) is put in the optical path, the beam from the reflecting element (92) is sensed by a sensor. From the sensing result, it is judged that a specific type of objective lens (35) is in the optical path. Accordingly, there is provided an objective lens driving apparatus that includes at least two objective lenses with different numerical apertures according to optical information recording mediums complying with different standards, is capable of switching between the objective lenses according to the optical information recording medium to be used, and further has a simple structure capable of identifying the type of the objective lens selected by switching.
摘要:
When recording and/or reproducing data on a disk formatted in accordance with a constant linear velocity (CLV) system while the disk is rotated and a head is movable in a radial direction relative to the disk for scanning radially successive circular tracks thereon, and a recording and/or reproducing circuit is operable in response to a data transfer clock for causing the head to record and/or reproduce data in the tracks scanned thereby : the disk is virtually divided into a plurality of virtual zones (Fig. 1A) arranged successively in the radial direction and each comprised of a respective plurality of the tracks ; the frequency of the data transfer clock (Fig. 1B) is determined in dependence on the one of the virtual zones in which the tracks being scanned are situated at least during the initiation of a recording or reproducing operation, with the frequency determined at the initiation of a recording or reproducing operation being increased step wise for each of the successive zones considered in the radially outward direction and being maintained substantially constant at least so long as the tracks being scanned are in the one of the zones at which the recording or reproducing operation was initiated ; and the angular velocity (Fig. 1C) at which the disk is rotated during the recording or reproducing of data in the tracks within any one of the virtual zones is decreased as successive tracks, considered in the radially outward direction, are scanned during the recording or reproducing operation in which the frequency of the data transfer clock is maintained substantially constant.