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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2024
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takuji Matsuzawa, Kashiwa Chiba, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes rotatable disks, heads, microactuators, a voice coil motor (VCM), and a control system, wherein the control system determines a final set of heads of target for simultaneously positioned on their respective target tracks from among the heads, by using at least a displacement amount of the microactuators, determines a target position of the VCM when the heads in the final set are simultaneously positioned on their respective target tracks, switches a controller of the VCM when the heads in the final set are simultaneously positioned on their respective target tracks, and switches controller of the microactuators included in each of the heads in the final set.
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