Magnetic disk device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11756580-B2
Application number	US-202217690744-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2022
Priority date	Sep 22, 2021
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

A magnetic disk device includes a plurality of magnetic heads, a storage unit that stores a table storing, for each of the magnetic heads, a track skew value obtained by adding a head shared value and a head unique value, and a control unit that reads out the track skew value corresponding to one of the magnetic heads to be operated from the table and performs seek control.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A magnetic disk device comprising:
a plurality of magnetic heads; a storage unit that stores a table storing, for the magnetic heads, track skew values obtained by adding a unique value and shared values respectively corresponding the magnetic heads, the shared values being predetermined and shared among magnetic disk devices including the magnetic disk device, and the unique value being optimized for the magnetic disk device; and a control unit that reads out among the track skew values, a track skew value corresponding to one of the magnetic heads to be operated from the table and performs seek control.

2 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the track skew value is stored in a unit of data sector or servo sector.

3 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shared values are is set based on a measured value of a settling time under a vibration-free environment, and the unique value is set based on a settling-time extension value obtained in advance as a result of operating a different set of magnetic heads under a vibration environment.

4 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of magnetic heads is grouped into groups of magnetic heads having similar settling modes, the storage unit stores the table storing a track skew value of each of the groups, and the control unit reads, from the table, the track skew value corresponding to the group to which the magnetic head to be operated belongs and performs seek control.

5 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of magnetic heads is grouped according to a positional relationship between the magnetic heads and a housing of the magnetic disk device.

6 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of magnetic heads are sorted into a group of magnetic heads having shorter lengths of settling time and a group of magnetic heads having longer lengths of settling time.

7 . The magnetic disk device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the storage unit stores a table storing a head skew value for each of the magnetic heads, and in a case where seek control involving a change of the magnetic heads is included, the control unit reads the head skew value corresponding to a magnetic head to be operated from the head skew table and performs seek control.

8 . A control method of a magnetic disk device, to be executed by the magnetic disk device comprising a plurality of magnetic heads and a storage unit that stores a table storing, for the magnetic heads, track skew values obtained by adding a unique value and shared values respectively corresponding the magnetic heads, the shared values being predetermined and shared among magnetic disk devices including the magnetic disk device, and the unique value being optimized for the magnetic disk device, the control method comprising:
reading, among the track skew values, a track skew value corresponding to one of the magnetic heads to be operated from the table; and performing seek control of the corresponding magnetic head on a basis of the track skew value that has been read.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to control a magnetic disk device comprising a plurality of magnetic heads and a storage unit that stores a table storing, for the magnetic heads, track skew values obtained by adding a unique value and shared values respectively corresponding the magnetic heads, the shared values being predetermined and shared among magnetic disk devices including the magnetic disk device, and the unique value being optimized for the magnetic disk device, the program causing the computer to perform:
reading, among the track skew values, a track skew value corresponding to one of the magnetic heads to be operated from the table; and performing seek control of the corresponding magnetic head on a basis of the track skew value that has been read.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp

Inventors

• Suzuki Sho
• Kawabe Takayuki
• Hara Takeyori
• Sudo Daisuke

Classifications

• G11B27/11 Primary

  by using information not detectable on the record carrier · CPC title

• G11B5/59688 Primary

  Servo signal format patterns or signal processing thereof, e.g. dual, tri, quad, burst signal patterns · CPC title

• G11B27/105

  of operating discs · CPC title

• G11B5/59655

  Sector, sample or burst servo format · CPC title

• G11B2020/1281

  Servo information · CPC title