Magnetic head and system for controlling the position of a magnetic head

A magnetic head having a head face and transducing gaps terminating in the head face, the transducing gaps defining a longitudinal direction along which a magnetic recording medium can be relatively moved with respect to the magnetic head, and being aligned generally in a width direction oriented transversely to the longitudinal direction,

• said magnetic head comprising an integrated structure comprising a plurality of juxtaposed write units extending substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction and the width direction which is transverse to said longitudinal direction, each of said write units having at least one respective write gap which is a respective one of said transducing gaps, a write gap of a first write unit and a write gap of a second write unit adjacent the first write unit being disposed in mutually different planes oriented substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction and extending at different sides of a same plane oriented substantially transversely to the width direction,
• said magnetic head including two magnetically conducting common poles terminating in the head face, and one of said two adjacent write units being provided with two write gaps,
• one of said two write gaps and the write gap of the other of the two adjacent write units being coplanar write gaps situated in the same one of said mutually different planes, said coplanar write gaps extending between said two magnetically conducting common poles, and the other of said two write gaps extends between one of the common poles and a magnetically conducting individual pole,
• said write units being disposed such that said transducing gaps are directly adjacent said same plane oriented substantially transversely to the width direction, so that a recording channel density of 100% is achieved.