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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1997
Filed:
May. 22, 1995
Kenji Kuroki, Fujisawa, JP;
Takao Matsui, Yamato, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A controller 40 of an HDC 30 is connected to a drive 28, and an arm is rotated through a predetermined angle. A magnetic head 20 on the arm comprises a recording element and a reproduction element. A bias current is supplied to the magnetic head 20 from the controller 40 through a driver 36A and a switching circuit 32A, and the magnetic field of the disk 18A is detected in a detector 38A through a switching circuit 32A. The switching circuit 32A inverts the polarity of a current applied to the magnetic head 20A, by a signal from the controller 40 corresponding to a skew angle. Accordingly, the direction of the bias magnetic field is changed, the effective sensitivity position of the reproduction element approaches the recording element, and off-track can be reduced.