摘要:
A method and system for adjusting a servo head in a tape drive is disclosed. Position information for the servo head can be obtained and used to determine if an adjustment of one of the servo heads is necessary. By comparing the position of the tape against two servo heads, erroneous adjustments to the servo head can be obviated.
摘要:
The invention generally relates to hard disk drives with a disk and a read/write head, and methods for preventing contact between the disk and the read/write head. The hard disk drive includes a z-axis actuator configured to control movement of the read/write head, and to prevent contact between the read/write head and the disk, based on signals from a controller that indicate when the distance between the read/write head and the disk are outside a predetermined range, such as between 0 and 10.0 nm.
摘要:
An actuator rotational limiter mechanism for a multiple disk-stack, shared actuator hard disk drive includes an actuator comb with a protruding pin, whereby rotation of the actuator comb is limited by an attraction between the pin and a magnet. An enclosure base may include a curved slot in which the pin is disposed, where one end of the slot may correspond to the head slider being near the inner diameter of a first disk stack and the other end of the slot may correspond to the head slider being near the inner diameter of a second disk stack adjacent to the first disk stack. The magnet may be disposed within or adjacent to the curved slot, at a midway location, whereby the pin is held in place by the magnet at a position that corresponds to the head slider being parked on a ramp positioned between the disk stacks.
摘要:
A drive-implemented method according to one embodiment includes determining an extent of tape dimensional instability, and adjusting a tilt angle of a first array of transducers based on the determined extent. A readback operation is performed using the array oriented at the tile angle. During the readback operation, a longitudinal axis of the first arrays is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of a second array of transducers coupled thereto.
摘要:
A disk drive slider is disclosed comprising a first read element for generating a first read signal, and a first sense amplifier comprising a first input terminal coupled to the first read element, a first output terminal coupled to a first output line, and a first supply terminal coupled to a supply line. The first sense amplifier is for amplifying the first read signal to generate a first amplified read signal, the first output line is for transmitting the first amplified read signal to a preamp, and the supply line is for coupling to the preamp in order to supply power to the first sense amplifier and supply a first bias to the first read element.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are provided for positioning a transducer relative to a track of a data storage medium and inducing lateral modulation of transducer the relative to the track. An element of the transducer is actuated toward the storage medium during the lateral modulation, and atomic interaction is detected between the element and the storage medium because of a change in a response to the lateral modulation of the transducer due to the atomic interaction.
摘要:
A recording head for use in magnetic storage devices is disclosed. The recording head includes a transducer that is bi-directionally movable with respect to a surface of the magnetic storage medium, thereby enabling improved positioning of the transducer during recording head read and write operations. Various structures are disclosed to bi-directionally actuate the recording head transducer. In one embodiment, an interleaver assembly having a plurality of flexure assemblies employs a motor including magnetic portions for selective, bi-directional actuation. In another embodiment, electrostatic charges are employed in the flexure assemblies for selective actuation. In yet another embodiment, piezoelectric elements are included to provide for selective actuation.
摘要:
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, and a head actuated radially over the disk, wherein the head comprises a read element separated from a write element by a reader/writer gap. A disk-locked clock is synchronized to a rotation of the disk, wherein the disk-locked clock comprises a plurality of clock cycles, and the reader/writer gap spans a first number of the clock cycles comprising an integer of the clock cycles plus a fraction of one of the clock cycles. The fraction of one of the clock cycles is measured when the head is positioned at a first plurality of radial locations across the disk, and a second plurality of radial locations is estimated where the fraction substantially equals a full one of the clock cycles.
摘要:
In a method for operating a tape storage device comprising a tape head for reading and/or writing data from/to a tape in the tape storage device, a first tape skew value concerning a skew of the tape is determined and the first tape skew value is converted into a first skew control signal by means of a skew feedback controller. A second tape skew value concerning the skew of the tape is determined, and the second tape skew value is converted into a second skew control signal by a feed-forward controller. At least one compensation signal for the second skew control signal is determined, and at least one of a rotational orientation of the tape head and a tape motion direction of the tape is controlled dependent on the second skew control signal and the compensation signal in case the first skew control signal fails.
摘要:
A ceramic sintered body contains Al2O3 crystal grains, internal TiC crystal grains existing in the Al2O3 crystal grains and external TiC crystal grains other than the internal TiC crystal grains. The Al2O3 crystal grains and the external TiC crystal grains retain stress caused by the difference in thermal expansion coefficient remaining after sintering, so that the Al2O3 crystal grains and the external TiC crystal grains pull each other in the interface therebetween. As a result, when the ceramic sintered body is machined, micro-cracks generated in the interface can easily grow due to the residual stress in addition to the shearing force caused by the machining operation, so that machinability is improved.
摘要翻译:陶瓷烧结体包含Al 2 O 3晶粒,存在于Al 2 O 3晶粒中的内部TiC晶粒和外部TiC晶粒以外的TiC晶粒。 Al 2 O 3晶粒和外部TiC晶粒保持由烧结后剩余的热膨胀系数的差异引起的应力,使得Al 2 O 3晶粒和外部TiC晶粒在其间的界面处相互牵引。 结果,当加工陶瓷烧结体时,除了由机械加工操作引起的剪切力之外,由于残余应力,在界面中产生的微裂纹容易生长,从而提高了切削性。