Hitachi, Ltd.

Nobukuni Ohkubo

Kazuo Nakagoshi

Yoshihiro Moribe

Mikio Takahashi

Akira Chuma

Yasuo Yamamoto

In a disk unit having a rotating mechanism to rotate the disk by pinching the disk at both sides, and a loading mechanism to bring a read-write head into contact with the disk, a method for driving the disk includes the steps in which, at the time of recording and reproduction, the rotating mechanism and the loading mechanism are actuated simultaneously, and when the recording and reproduction are completed, the rotating mechanism is stopped simultaneously with release of the loading mechanism, or after the lapse of a predetermined time from the release.

Method and apparatus for driving a disk

A floppy disk driver intended to protect the disk center hole from damage when the disk is mounted. The arrangement includes a speed detection circuit for detecting a relatively low rotational speed of the disk and a control circuit for speeding up the disk to a higher rotational speed for the read/write operation in response to the detection of the lower disk speed, whereby the disk is protected from damage by being rotated at the lower speed when its center hole is held between the collet and spindle.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobukuni Ohkubo