Apparatus and method for retracting the magnetic head to a home position after a predetermined time period
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidetaka Tabuchi
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk drive including a disk configured to store data therein and a head configured to access the disk and a control unit. The control unit causes the head to be retracted to a home position after a predetermined time period, based on an operation mode, has passed after performing control to cause the head to access the disk.
Claims16
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a hard disk drive including a disk configured to store data therein and a head configured to access the disk;
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- a control unit configured to cause the head to move to a home position from the disk in accordance with a lapse of a predetermined time period in a state of no access to the hard disk drive after the head moved onto the disk,
- wherein the predetermined time period in a second mode, in which the information processing apparatus is unable to execute a job, is shorter than the predetermined time period in a first mode, in which the information processing apparatus is able to execute a job.
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus including a hard disk drive including a disk configured to store data therein and a head configured to access the disk, and a control unit, the method comprising:
- causing the head to move to a home position from the disk in accordance with a lapse of a predetermined time period in a state of no access to the hard disk drive after the head moved onto the disk,
- wherein the predetermined time period in a second mode, in which the information processing apparatus is unable to execute a job, is shorter than the predetermined time period in a first mode, in which the information processing apparatus is able to execute a job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.