摘要:
A data recording and reproducing circuit for a memory system, such as a magnetic disk memory system. The circuit includes a reflection type cosine equalizer and a data reproducing circuit. The equalizer includes a first equalizing circuit, having a first equalizing gain, and outputting a first equalized signal, and a second equalizing circuit having a second equalizing gain smaller than the first equalizing gain, and outputting a second equalizing circuit. The data reproducing circuit includes a differentiator for differentiating the first equalized signal, a window generating circuit for generating a window signal from the second equalized signal, and a data separator for discriminating the differentiated signal in response to the window signal to produce a pulsed reproduction signal.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling a head includes a transmitting module and a controller. The transmitting module is configured to transmit a write signal to a magnetic head having a spin torque oscillator at the time of recording data. The controller is configured to supply a drive signal that has a level higher than the ordinary level for a prescribed effective time, to the spin-torque oscillator in response to an input write gate that instructs the recording of data. During a period other than prescribed effective time, the controller supplies a drive signal having the ordinary level to the spin-torque oscillator.
摘要:
An information storage apparatus that records servo information and user data on a recording face of a recording medium wherein a track density measuring unit measures the optimal track density for a recording face corresponding to each head targeting a storage medium on which the servo information has not yet been recorded and a recording density measuring unit measures the optimal linear density for each recording face. A servo frame writing unit writes the servo information varying a track pitch to a track pitch corresponding to the optimal track density measured by the track density measuring unit and a recording frequency to a recording frequency corresponding to the optimal linear density measured by the linear density measuring unit, for each head.
摘要:
Upon recording, a clearance control unit performs preheating by an added control value (B+R) of a base heater control value B and an adjustment heater control value R and switches that to merely the base heater control value B when it reaches a target sector so as to perform write. Upon reproduction, preheating is performed by the added control value (B+R), and the added control value (B+R) is maintained when it reaches a target sector so as to perform read. A correction processing unit 46 detects contact (touchdown) between the head and a medium surface while gradually increasing the adjustment heater control value R from a predetermined initial value Ro, sets a value, which is obtained by subtracting a heater control value Sp converted from a minimum clearance and the initial value Ro from a contact heater control value Rtd, as the base heater control value B, and sets the initial value Ro as the adjustment heater control value R. Write assist adjustment in which the measured adjustment heater control value R is adjusted to a heater control value that improves characteristic deterioration immediately after recording is started wherein preheating is switched to write heating is performed.
摘要:
A thermal asperity detection method includes the steps of (a) converting an analog signal reproduced from a magnetic recording medium into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter, (b) detecting thermal asperity based on the digital signal, and (c) automatically recognizing and managing detection of the thermal asperity by the step (b) by firmware.
摘要:
A recording unit is provided, to which a write current is supplied in accordance with information to be stored. The recording unit records the information in a recording medium in accordance with the write current. A temperature detecting unit detects an ambient temperature of the recording medium. A timer monitors time for the temperature detecting unit to detect the ambient temperature of the recording medium at predetermined times. A write-current setting unit sets the write current for the ambient temperature of the recording medium detected by the temperature detecting unit, each time when the temperature detecting unit detects the ambient temperature of the recording medium, the time being obtained from the timer.
摘要:
A method of controlling a magnetic disk unit. The method controls the magnetic disk unit which comprises a disk enclosure part and a printed-circuit board part. The disk enclosure part includes at least one magnetic disk, at least one magnetic head and a mechanical part for driving each magnetic disk and each magnetic head. The printed-circuit board part includes a circuit part for controlling the disk enclosure part. The method includes the steps of writing on the magnetic disk version data indicating a type of disk enclosure part after the disk enclosure part and the printed-circuit board part are assembled, and automatically setting the circuit part of the printed-circuit board part depending on the version data which is read from the magnetic disk after the magnetic disk unit is completed.
摘要:
In a reproduced waveform equalizing circuit for thin-film magnetic heads for eliminating a negative edge of a thin-film magnetic head, even if there is a manufactural variation in thin-film magnetic heads, the negative edge is eliminated. In the reproduced waveform equalizing circuit, an operation circuit receives a readout output including a negative edge from a selected one of a plurality of thin-film magnetic heads and performs waveform equalization from the output of a delay circuit. The output delay circuit has an input side terminated with a characteristic impedance and provides a time delay of (.tau.2-.tau.1), the output of a multiplier (4) for multiplying a (J2-J1) delayed signal by K1 and the output of a delay amount changing circuit (6) for delaying an input signal to eliminate a negative edge. The waveform equalizing circuit is provided with a delay amount determining circuit for determining a delay time for elimination of a negative edge from a head select signal and a head position signal of the thin-film magnetic head 1, whereby a delay amount of the delay amount changing circuit is controlled by a delay amount indicating signal from the delay amount determining circuit.