| US 7,525,752 B2 | ||
| Media drive and control method for the same | ||
| Noriaki Satoh, Kanagawa (Japan); Masaharu Kawamura, Kanagawa (Japan); Noboru Yoshida, Tokyo (Japan); Kazunari Tsuchimoto, Kanagawa (Japan); and Toyomi Ohsawa, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, Amsterdam (Netherlands) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 13, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/705,915. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-038147 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2006; and application No. 2006-263004 (JP), filed on Sep. 27, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0188907 A1, Aug. 16, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G11B 5/60 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 360—75 [360/53] | 22 Claims |
| 1. A media drive comprising:
a slider that flies above a rotating medium;
a head element section disposed in the slider;
a heater disposed in the slider, wherein the heater causes the head element section to protrude by thermal expansion and adjusts
a clearance between the medium and the head element section;
a table which, if an error occurs, identifies an execution step of an error recovery process for the error, wherein the table
includes a step of changing the heater in heater power;
a controller that conducts execution control of the execution step identified by the table; and
a temperature detector,
wherein, in accordance with a temperature detected by the temperature detector, the drive changes the heater power changing
step to be executed in the error recovery process.
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