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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic disk unit includes slider suspension assemblies, each of the assemblies having a slider with at least one magnetic head element and a suspension with one end portion and one surface, the slider being mounted on the one surface of the suspension at the one end portion, magnetic disks, each of the disks having at least one surface which opposes to the slider of the assembly, head IC chips electrically connected to the magnetic head elements, and a control circuit electrically connected with the head IC chips. The control circuit controls operations of each of the magnetic head elements so that the write current is applied to the magnetic head element for a first predetermined period of time and then the application of the write current to the magnetic head element is stopped for a second predetermined period of time which is equal to or longer than the first predetermined period.