Fujitsu Corporation

Atsushi Satoh

Eisaku Takahashi

Eiji Okamura

Kazuhide Ohba

Tatsuya Gofuku

Chihiro Ono

Isao Suda

Takashi Tokairin

Tsutomu Sasaki

Hirofumi Suzuki

Norihiko Suzuki

Takahiro Ono

Kenji Endo

Hirokazu Ishizaki

Koichi Tohkairin

Masaru Saiki

A disk apparatus has a disk medium with sector areas that have a servo area and a data area along the same cylinder. The servo areas also have a sector mark indicative of the servo area, a code indicative of a cylinder address, and a predetermined servo pattern to detect a head position, all magnetically recorded in the servo area. A disk control section uses a head portion to detect the head position on the basis of a read signal of the servo pattern and positions the head portion at an arbitrary cylinder to perform reading and writing operations. The disk apparatus also has a time measuring counter for starting to measure an elapsed time each time a predetermined position in the servo area is detected, and a time setting register for storing a time from a detection time point of the predetermined position in the servo area to the generation of the sector pulse. A coincidence detecting section is provided to detect that the elapsed time measured by the time measuring counter coincides with the set time of the register, while a pulse generating section is provided for generating the sector pulse when the coincidence is detected by the coincidence detecting section.

Disk apparatus using coincidence detection to generate variable sector

A storage unit is provided with at least one head for reproducing servo information from a medium, a processing part for carrying out a servo process to position the head with respect to the medium, and a setting part for setting a ratio of a first time with respect to a sampling time smaller in one of a data read state and a command wait state than in a data write state. The sampling time is made up of the first time in which the servo process is carried out by the processing part, and a second time in which a process with respect to a request from an external host unit is carried out.

Storage unit having reduced wait time of process with respect to command

For a balance adjustment due to a reduction in size and weight of an actuator, an arm portion, an axis attaching portion, and a coil supporting portion are arranged so that the centers of gravity on the coil side are located on a straight line connecting a rotational center and the center of gravity on the head side. Further, the improvement of an assembling efficiency of a VCM, an increase in torque, a one-touch fixing of an FPC connecting band, a noise prevention of a read pattern, and an insulation between the base and cover due to a bias of an MR read head are accomplished. A sector mark is detected by comparing a peak detection pulse and its reference polarity signal. A redundancy is provided to a reference detection polarity signal so that a read signal can be detected even if any one of the read signals of the sector marks is dropped out. A gray code detecting section for recognizing a cylinder address also detects on the basis of a peak detection pulse and a polarity signal due to the reading of a gray code. A memory space to store a program is divided into an ROM space of a small electric power consumption and an RAM space of a large electric power consumption and stores each peculiar program.

Head positioning control for disk apparatus using peak detection,

Seek operation of a seek control section is monitored by an error monitoring section, and when a seek operation does not end normally, the control is forcedly switched over to fine control by the on-track control section without reporting the error to the higher-level controller. The error monitoring section variably sets a seek timeout time Ts depending on the seek distance between the current position of the head and the target position at the start of seek, for example. When the seek timeout time Ts elapses before the target position is reached, it is judged as an error.

Disk apparatus for monitoring error by setting timeout time upon seek

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Higashine, Japan

Atsushi Satoh