Control value setting method of thermal actuator for magnetic disk device
View Patent ↗According to one embodiment, curve fitting, which uses power supplied to the thermal actuator when a magnetic head is brought into contact with a magnetic disk by the thermal actuator and a quadratic or higher curve, is performed at at least five radial positions in a radial direction of the magnetic disk in a case of setting a control value of the thermal actuator, and it is determined as abnormal contact detection when a Z value of an RMS of a fitting residual from the quadratic or higher curve of each power exceeds a predetermined value.
1. A control value setting method of a thermal actuator for a magnetic disk device, the method comprising:
performing curve fitting by a control unit of the magnetic disk device, which uses power supplied to the thermal actuator when a magnetic head is brought into contact with a magnetic disk by the thermal actuator and a quadratic or higher function, at least five radial positions in a radial direction of the magnetic disk in a case of setting a control value of the thermal actuator; and
determining the performance as abnormal contact detection by the control unit when a Z value of an RMS of a fitting residual from the quadratic or higher function of each power exceeds a predetermined value.
2. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , further comprising
determining, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, the abnormal contact detection when a Z value of a coefficient of the function exceeds the predetermined value.
3. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , further comprising
determining, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, the abnormal contact detection when a Z value, which is a shift amount of a distance from an inter-coefficient correlation line of the function, exceeds the predetermined value.
4. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , wherein
the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual, and a radial position at which the Z value of the RMS is evaluated as a minimum value is determined as an abnormal contact radial position.
5. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 4 , wherein
the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate a sum of the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual and the Z value of the coefficient of the function, and a radial position at which the sum of the Z values is evaluated as a minimum value is determined the an abnormal contact radial position.
6. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 4 , wherein
the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate a sum of the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual and the Z value which is a distance from a correlation between coefficients of the function, and
a radial position at which the sum of the Z values is evaluated as a minimum value is determined as the abnormal contact radial position.