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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2009
Applicants:

Brian K. Tanner, San Jose, CA (US);

Debasis Baral, San Jose, CA (US);

Loc Hoang Nguyen, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian K. Tanner, San Jose, CA (US);

Debasis Baral, San Jose, CA (US);

Loc Hoang Nguyen, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

This application discloses a hard disk drive using a self-resonant frequency band of a Voice Coil Motor far above its operational frequency band to predict Rapid Off Track events before its head stack assembly can deliver the disruption to the slider writing a track. A circuit board and/or an integrated circuit are disclosed in various embodiments to predict the ROT events using the self-resonant frequency band and/or to respond to the prediction to suppress the slider writing.


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