DISK DRIVE OPERATION
5.3 Servo System
The Servo System controls the position of the read/write heads and holds them on track during read/write operations. The Servo System also compensates for MR write/read offsets and thermal offsets between heads on different surfaces and for vibration and shock applied to the drive.
The SpinPoint V40 is an Embedded Sector Servo System. Positioning information is radially located in 192 evenly spaced servo sectors on each track.
Radial position information can be provided from these sectors for each data head, 192 times per revolution. Because the drive incorporates multiple data zones and each zone has a different bit density, split data fields are necessary for optimal use of the
The Servo system has three modes of operation:
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2.Settle mode is used for all accesses; head switches,
3.Velocity control mode is used for acceleration and deceleration of the actuator for a seek of two or more tracks. A seek operation of this length is accomplished with a velocity control loop. The drive’s ROM stores the velocity profile in a
The feed forward compensation is used while the bandwidth of the control loop is kept low.
5.4 Read and Write Operations
The following two sections describe the read and write channels.
5.4.1The Read Channel
The drive has one read/write head for each of the data surfaces. The signal path for the Read Channel starts at the read/write heads. When the magnetic flux transitions recorded on a disk pass under the head, they generate
The flexible circuit transmits the
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