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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2005
Yu Sun, Fremont, CA (US);
Yunfeng LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Lin Guo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Paul Yeagle, Berthoud, CO (US);
Yu Sun, Fremont, CA (US);
Yunfeng Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Lin Guo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Paul Yeagle, Berthoud, CO (US);
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
A disk drive includes a disk, a head, a coarse actuator, a microactuator, and a servo controller. The microactuator positions the head relative to the disk. The coarse actuator positions the microactuator and the head relative to the disk. The servo controller controls the microactuator in accordance with a microactuator feedforward control signal that is provided by the servo controller based on a plurality of microactuator feedforward values. The servo controller tunes at least one microactuator feedforward value of the plurality of microactuator feedforward values. The servo controller scales the microactuator feedforward control signal in accordance with a microactuator feedforward gain, and the servo controller adjusts the microactuator feedforward gain based on a position error signal that is determined during a seek operation.