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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1986
Masakatsu Moriyama, Yokohama, JP;
Keiichi Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A disk drive apparatus includes apparatus for elimination of off-track errors of a read/write head by deriving and storing correction data for all of the tracks on a disk on the basis of the signal level resulting from read-out of the contents of gap portions of the format data in two specific tracks. If, as indicated by a read error indication signal from a host computer, read errors subsequently occur in spite of position correction based on a stored correction value, then the off-track error for the track concerned is detected and an updated correction value is derived and stored. Accurate position control is thereby attained without a need for servo data tracks or regions to be recorded on each disk.