摘要:
The present invention provides a disk drive, a loading/unloading apparatus, and a method for controlling the apparatus, capable of improving the reliability of data by performing stable speed control. A disk drive comprises a VCM spindle driver for rotating a disk, a magnetic head, an actuator mechanism for moving a head slider having the magnetic head to a position above the surface of the magnetic disk and an unloaded position, a ramp block, and a CPU/HDC for performing the speed control of an actuator and the calibration control for detecting the offset and dynamic range of an AD converter before the speed control and controlling the operation for reading or writing data from or into the disk, which increases a rectangular current value to be applied to a voice coil while successively changing codes, measures an offset in accordance with the AD converter value for each current value, and moreover measures a dynamic range by deciding a nonlinear area when the difference between the expected value and measured value of the AD converter becomes a predetermined value or more.
摘要:
A disk drive with means to prevent accidental landing of a head/slider on the disk surface is described. In one embodiment a shock sensor is provided to sense external shocks received by the mechanism. During loading (positioning) of the actuator bearing the head/slider over the disk, if a shock is sensed, loading is stopped and an immediate unloading is performed to return the actuator to the withdrawn position. In another embodiment the unload operation is performed when the rotational speed of the disk is changed. In another embodiment the unload operation is performed when the rotational speed of the disk drops below a threshold. A circuit and method for detecting when the rotational speed of the disk drops below a threshold is also provided. The unloading in the various embodiments may be performed using velocity control or without velocity control.
摘要:
The invention relates to a head mechanism control apparatus for magnetic recording device which ensures that the transducer head has been unloaded in a head unloading operation. A head slider having a transducer head is mounted on a head arm and is unloaded from the disk by the swinging of the head arm. The retract position is at the limit portion of the swingable range of the head arm. When the head slider is successfully unloaded to the retract position, a drive force applied to the head arm in the unload direction causes little movement of the head arm. After an unloading is performed, a position check drive force is applied to the head arm and the moving speed of the head slider is detected. Based on the moving speed, it is judged whether the head slider has been unloaded to the retract position. If the head slider has not been unloaded to the retract position, re-unloading is performed for moving the head slider to the retract position.
摘要:
A disk and a disk drive having a servo start mark for identifying a servo-information start position recorded on the disk is provided. The servo start mark has a plurality of bit patterns unused for other areas in servo information. A method for identifying the position of a signal transducer on a disk is also provided in which it is judged that the signal transducer is present at a predetermined position even if an error is present and the error is a one-bit error. This is accomplished by assuming that the position is correct when the following conditions are confirmed: (a) a parity error occurs in a read servo-information bit pattern and (b) read servo-information bit pattern does not coincide with servo information of an adjacent track.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques to inspect the track pitch of a magnetic disk. In one embodiment, the track pitch is inspected using the servo information that was written onto the magnetic disk. A PES gain is set to be PG0. A head is moved to a position K near the position where control is to switch between MPES and SPES, and then MPES and SPES are calculated using reproduced burst signals and PG0. The quantity of change in the inspection HSP which is a half-servo pitch of an inspection-related burst pattern, with respect to an ideal half-servo pitch, is detected by calculating PESΔ, the difference between the MPES and SPES at position K. The track pitch is thus judged whether it is abnormal.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques to inspect the track pitch of a magnetic disk. In one embodiment, the track pitch is inspected using the servo information that was written onto the magnetic disk. A PES gain is set to be PG0. A head is moved to a position K near the position where control is to switch between MPES and SPES, and then MPES and SPES are calculated using reproduced burst signals and PG0. The quantity of change in the inspection HSP which is a half-servo pitch of an inspection-related burst pattern, with respect to an ideal half-servo pitch, is detected by calculating PESΔ, the difference between the MPES and SPES at position K. The track pitch is thus judged whether it is abnormal.
摘要:
The backlight device is configured in a planar geometry by the combination of a plurality of light emitting units. The light guide plate of the light emitting unit has a light guide unit that guides light from the light source and a light emission surface that emits light from the light guide unit. Adjacent light emitting units are arranged to cross to each other and the light emission surface of a light emitting unit overlaps with the light guide unit of another light emitting unit such that the light guide unit of each light guide plate of the light emitting unit does not extend outside the light emission region of the backlight device.
摘要:
When a communication between a camera and a television is performed utilizing a first wireless communication mode which employs high-directional radio transmission, and a second wireless communication mode which employs low-directional radio transmission with lower directivity than that of high-directional radio transmission, the television detects that the communication in the first wireless communication mode has been disconnected and notifies the camera. The camera determines whether or not the movement of the camera is the cause of disconnection in the first wireless communication mode. If the reason for disconnection is the movement of the camera, a control signal is transmitted to the television so as not to execute the process for an avoiding no-signal condition.
摘要:
A debug circuit (2) and a microcomputer incorporating the debug circuit (2). The debug circuit (2) is capable of receiving a trace event from a functional block A as long as a CPU (5) does not generate any trace event, and capable of receiving the trace event from the functional block A in synchronization with a standard clock signal CLK used in the CPU (5) when the reception of the trace event from the functional block A is permitted.
摘要:
Conversion information regarding a method of frame-rate conversion executed in an image pickup apparatus is attached to video data, and the video data with the attached conversion information is passed to a playback apparatus. In the playback apparatus, an optimal image processing method is selected according to the conversion information.