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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2000
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed an information storage apparatus with a low current consumption in a spindle motor or the like. A spindle motor driver and spindle motor serve as both a driver for driving a disk-like information storage medium in a predetermined direction and a brake for forcibly stopping rotation of the information storage medium, and by appropriately inputting, to the spindle motor driver , a spindle-on signal SPDLON for operating the spindle motor driver and spindle motor as the driver and a brake signal BRAKE for operation as the brake, MPU selectively uses a forced stop operation for stopping driving the information storage medium to forcibly stop the information storage medium, and a natural stop operation in which the spindle motor simply stops driving the information storage medium.