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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1986
Robin J Freeze, Milpitas, CA (US);
John L Grimsley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Data Technology Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A velocity servo system for a disk drive, the servo system being responsive to digital signals and generating a control signal for moving a read head of the disk drive from a current track position to a commanded track position. The servo system includes a circuit for reading current track address information and servo bursts recorded on a disk in said disk drive and for generating threshold signals when said read servo bursts are of a predetermined amplitude. An appropriately programmed data processing system provides a decoder responsive to the current track address read by the reading means and to the threshold signals for generating a current half track address, a first comparator which compares the current half track address with the commanded track position to generate half tracks-to-go digital data in response thereto; and generates commanded acceleration data in response to the half tracks-to-go data and to successive half track addresses. The servo system further includes a digital to analog converter for converting said commanded acceleration data to said control signal.