Data recording/reproducing apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHiroshi Ito
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Abstract
In a sector servo type magnetic disk apparatus having a carriage lock mechanism for locking a carriage by using magnetic force of a magnet, when a magnetic head placed on a CSS (contact start and stop) zone in contact with a disk is unlocked and moved to a data zone, a driving current supplied to a voice coil motor for driving the carriage is increased at a predetermined rate, until servo data recorded in the data zone is detected.
Claims7
A data recording or reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a recording medium having a data zone prestoring servo data and a contact start and stop zone;
- head means for reading or writing data from or in the recording medium;
- supporting means for supporting the head means;
- moving means for moving the supporting means;
- supplying means for supplying a driving current to the moving means;
- locking means for locking the supporting means when the head means is placed on the contact start and stop zone;
- detecting means for detecting the servo data from data read from the data zone by the head means;
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- controlling means for controlling the supplying means so that the driving current is supplied to the moving means at predetermined time intervals when the head means is moved to the data zone from the contact start and stop zone, the driving current being increased at a predetermined rate until the servo data is detected by the detecting means.
A method of controlling a driving current supplied to a motor for moving a carriage in a data recording or reproducing apparatus comprising a recording medium having a data zone prestoring servo data and a contact start and stop zone, a carriage for supporting a magnetic head, a lock mechanism for locking the carriage when the magnetic head is placed on the contact start and stop zone, and the motor for moving the carriage, the method comprising the steps of:
- supplying the driving current to the motor at predetermined time intervals to move the carriage, when the magnetic head is moved to the data zone from the contact start and stop zone;
- determining whether the servo data has been read out from the recording medium by the magnetic head;
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- increasing the driving current supplied to the motor at a predetermined rate until the servo data is read out from the recording medium by the magnetic head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.