摘要:
A method for predicting and avoiding data errors by predicting disk drive read-write inhibit requirements in response to at least two parameters including a head position error and velocity with respect to the track centerline. A write or read inhibit signal is generated in response to selected combinations of these parameters to minimize soft read errors arising from track misregistration and to avoid hard errors arising from overwriting data recorded in an adjacent track. The read and write inhibit strategy is described as a pair of linguistic control rules suitable for implementation in a Fuzzy Logic Controller.
摘要:
A rotary actuator head driver for a direct access storage device includes a transducer head moving in a radial direction across a disk surface for reading and/or writing data on a plurality of tracks for storing data. A support arm supports the transducer head relative to the disk surface. The support arm is connected to a pivot defining an axis of rotation spaced from the transducer head. A head driver positions the transducer head over one track in a track following mode or moves the transducer head from one track to another track in a seek mode. The head driver generates oppositely directed forces to produce a net torque applied to the support arm through the pivot. The oppositely directed forces have a line of action orthogonal a dominant motion of the transducer head. As a result, any parasitic force is orthogonal to the dominant motion and does not contribute to track misregistration errors. When the oppositely directed forces have an equal magnitude for force cancellation, the effect parasitic forces are eliminated. The head driver includes a pair of miniature voice coil motors or an in-the-hub motor.
摘要:
A direct access storage device and a method of operation thereof where the output of the circuit which controls energy to the position actuator for the head may be changed at times between receipt of sequential position error signals from the medium. Instead of waiting for the next position error signal, a computation is done based on at least the current position and the desired position of the head as to when the head velocity will be equal to a desired velocity. The optimum time to switch is estimated, the energy required to achieve a predetermined velocity and a predetermined offset with respect to the desired position are computed, and operation is conducted accordingly. The amount of energy may again be changed at a time subsequent to the estimated time. The predetermined velocity and the predetermined offset may be zero or may have values other than zero in accordance with the requirements of the track following controller.
摘要:
A technique for preventing damage to ball bearings in small form factor devices where the drive motor has at least one piezoelectric crash stop ring disposed about the shaft and inside the rotor of the motor. The crash stop ring must be dimensioned to permit only a small amount of movement of the rotor relative to the shaft. The permitted movement is less than the minimum movement which would cause damage to the elements of the ball bearing.
摘要:
A method and apparatus, in a direct access storage device including a head positioned for interaction with a data storage medium mounted on a rotating spindle, an actuator for positioning the head, and a servo control loop for positioning the actuator. The improvement comprises: a narrow band gain enhancing filter for connection in the servo control loop. The filter has a response frequency related to the rotational frequency of the spindle. The filter has programmable initial states. Also provided is a switch for switching in the narrow band filter as the head approaches a target position on the data storage medium. Initial states of the filter are determined and supplied to program the filter. At least one additional filter having a peak response frequency at a harmonic of the frequency of rotation of the spindle, may be provided. Initial states of the additional filters are determined and supplied to program the additional filter. The filter may include successive delay circuits for inputs to the filter, which circuits provide delayed outputs; multipliers for multiplying selected delayed outputs by a constant; and a summer for summing the delay outputs after the delayed outputs are multiplied by the multipliers. The initial states may be stored as phase, frequency and amplitude of a sine function.
摘要:
A technique for preventing damage to ball bearings in a small form factor device where the drive motor has at least one crash stop ring disposed about the shaft and inside the rotor of the motor. The crash stop ring is dimensioned to permit only a small amount of movement of the rotor relative to the shaft. The permitted movement must be less than the minimum movement which would cause damage to the elements of the ball bearing. In an alternative embodiment, a rotor includes a flange extending in the radial direction from the rotor. A piezoelectric ring is rigidly mounted on both sides of the flange to engage one of the planar surfaces of the flange when the piezoelectric ring is in the relaxed state. With two such crash stop rings disposed so that the rings can engage both planar surfaces of the flange, the rotor is effectively clamped between the two piezoelectric crash stop rings whenever the piezoelectric crash stop ting is disconnected from the power source used to contract the piezoelectric material in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor.
摘要:
In a direct access storage device including a rotating disk, a head positioned for interaction with said disk, an actuator for carrying said head and a servo system for operating said actuator so as to follow a substantially circular track on said disk by responding to a position error signal, a method for reducing response of the servo system to radial runout of the circular tracks, comprising the steps of obtaining radial runout data; filtering the data; storing the filtered data; subtracting the filtered data from the position error signal to obtain a corrected position error signal; and using the corrected position error signal to control the servo system. A direct access storage device in accordance with the invention includes means for obtaining radial runout data; means for filtering the data; means for storing the filtered data; means for subtracting the filtered data from the position error signal to obtain a corrected position error signal; and means for controlling the servo system using the corrected position error signal.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for writing servo tracks of a magnetic disk unit, and has an object of providing a servo track writing method and apparatus which can reduce a mechanical vibration of a head in the steady state and can shorten a settling time of the system. A detecting face is set in the vicinity of a head arm end portion 22 of a magnetic disk unit 2, and a capacitance probe 28 is provided as a gap detecting means for detecting a gap in a head moving direction between the detecting face and the head arm end portion 22. Further provided are a rotary positioner 26 as a positioning means for moving the capacitance probe 28 in the head moving direction to position it at a target position, and a head drive system control means for moving a head 14 of the magnetic disk unit 2 so that the gap is kept constant, to position the head 14 at a predetermined servo track writing position.
摘要:
In an idle state, servo information from all sectors is not used, but the servo information from every other sector or from every three or more sectors is used so that head positioning can be performed with only a minimum amount of servo information. The power to the electric circuitry of a write or read system and a servo system, which is not needed in the idle state, is interrupted, from the arrival of the selected servo information to the arrival of the next selected servo information, by a power control signal generated in accordance with the timing of the sectors. The power consumption can be reduced by the amount corresponding to turning off the circuitry not needed, plus the amount needed for computing for position control.
摘要:
A disk drive with reduced seek acoustic noise and a method for implementation, without any additional hardware or mechanical modifications to the actuator includes a filter such that servo-loop stability is unaffected. The filter is inserted outside the existing servo loop to reshape the existing velocity profile in real time and to facilitate the suppression of forcing components that produce seek acoustics. A weighting factor may be used to provide a weighted average of the filtered and unfiltered velocity reference signal to the servo loop so that at the end of a track seek operation, the unfiltered reference signal is applied to the velocity servo, and there is almost no change in settle-out performance when the target track is reached. It is not necessary to store large volumes of velocity profile data to deal with different seek lengths.