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- the present invention relates to a method for detecting an asperity on a parking zone of a disk.
- Hard disk drives contain a plurality of heads that are coupled to a number of magnetic disks.
- the heads can read information by sensing the magnetic fields of the disks, and write information by varying the magnetic fields of the disks.
- Information is typically stored within data sectors that are located on annular tracks of the disks.
- the heads are typically attached to an actuator arm and a voice coil motor.
- the voice coil motor can be energized to move the heads to different tracks of the disks.
- Each read/write head has an air bearing surface that cooperates with an airflow generated by the rotating disk to create an air bearing between the head and the disks surface.
- the air bearing reduces mechanical wear between the head and the adjacent disk surface. It is desirable to design an optimum air bearing that will minimize mechanical wear while maximizing the magnetic coupling between the disk and the head.
- Some heads contain a magneto-resistive (MR) material that is used to sense the magnetic field of the disks.
- the resistance of the magneto-resistive material will vary linearly with variations in the magnetic field.
- the magneto-resistive material is coupled to a current source. Variations in the magnetic field of the disk will cause a corresponding change in the magneto-resistive resistance and the voltage sensed across the magneto-resistive element.
- MR heads typically have a higher bit density than other types of disk drive heads.
- the disks may have one or more asperities that make physical contact with the heads.
- the asperity may be a particle that resides on the disk, or an irregularity in the disk surface.
- the contact between the asperity and the head may cause a momentary increase in temperature of the magneto-resistive material.
- the increase in temperature will increase the resistance and corresponding voltage sensed across the magneto-resistive element.
- thermal asperity detection circuits that will detect and compensate for the variation in the read signal caused by contact between the head and an asperity.
- the heads are located adjacent to the data fields of the disks.
- the heads When the disk drive is powered down the heads may be moved to parking zones of the disks.
- the parking zones are typically areas of the disks that have no data.
- the disk drive may be subject to shock and/or vibration loads that cause the heads to slap the disks. Head slapping may cause damage to the disks and/or heads. Placing the heads in non-data parking zones of the disks insure that data is not corrupted from a head slapping event.
- the surfaces of the disks are typically inspected with a disk certifier before being assembled into a hard disk drive.
- the disk certifier may include optical elements that are used to detect the surfaces of the disks.
- the certifiers are used to detect and possibly correct defective disks.
- an asperity is formed after the disks have been inspected and assembled into a drive.
- an asperity may be formed in the parking zone of a disk during the assembly process. The asperity may decrease the life and reliability of the disk drive. It would be desirable to detect an asperity in the parking zone of a disk after the disk drive has been assembled to screen for defective products before the drive is shipped to a customer.
- One embodiment of the present invention is a hard disk drive which has a controller that can move a head to a parking zone of a disk.
- the disk drive may include a thermal asperity detection circuit that is coupled to the head and can detect an asperity in the parking zone of the disk.
- FIG. 1 is a top view of an embodiment of a hard disk drive of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a schematic of an electrical system of the hard disk drive
- FIG. 3 is a schematic of a thermal asperity detection circuit of the electrical system.
- the present invention provides a method for detecting an asperity in a non-data parking zone of a disk in a hard disk drive.
- the method includes the steps of moving the heads of the disk drive adjacent to the parking zones of the disks, and then detecting asperities in the parking zones with a thermal asperity detection circuit.
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a hard disk drive 10 of the present invention.
- the disk drive 10 may include one or more magnetic disks 12 that are rotated by a spindle motor 14 .
- the spindle motor 14 may be mounted to a base plate 16 .
- the disk drive 10 may further have a cover 18 that encloses the disks 12 .
- the disk drive 10 may include a plurality of heads 20 located adjacent to the disks 12 .
- the heads 20 may have separate write and read elements (not shown) that magnetize and sense the magnetic fields of the disks 12 .
- the heads 20 may include magneto-resistive read elements.
- Each head 20 may be gimbal mounted to a flexure arm 22 as part of a head gimbal assembly (HGA).
- the flexure arms 22 are attached to an actuator arm 24 that is pivotally mounted to the base plate 16 by a bearing assembly 26 .
- a voice coil 28 is attached to the actuator arm 24 .
- the voice coil 28 is coupled to a magnet assembly 30 to create a voice coil motor (VCM) 32 . Providing a current to the voice coil 28 will create a torque that swings the actuator arm 24 and moves the heads 20 across the disks 12 .
- VCM voice coil motor
- the voice coil motor 32 can move the heads 20 to a parking zone 34 of each disk 12 .
- the parking zone 34 is an area that does not contain any data.
- the heads 20 are typically moved to the parking zones 20 when the disk drive 10 is powered down.
- the hard disk drive 10 may include a printed circuit board assembly 36 that includes a plurality of integrated circuits 38 coupled to a printed circuit board 40 .
- the printed circuit board 38 is coupled to the voice coil 28 , heads 20 and spindle motor 14 by wires (not shown).
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic of an electrical system 50 that can control the disk drive 10 .
- the system 50 includes a controller 52 that is connected to an input/output (I/O) buffer 54 , voice coil motor control circuit 56 , spindle motor control circuit 58 , read/write channel circuit 60 , memory 62 and a thermal asperity detection circuit 64 .
- the I/O buffer 54 provides an interface with an external source such as a personal computer.
- the voice coil control circuit 56 and spindle motor control circuit 58 contain drivers, etc. to control the voice coil motor and spindle motor, respectively.
- the voice coil motor circuit 56 and spindle motor control circuit 58 operate in accordance with signals, commands, etc. from the controller 52 .
- the controller 52 may be a processor that can perform software routines in accordance with instructions and data.
- Memory 62 may include both volatile and non-volatile memory.
- the thermal asperity circuit 64 can detect an asperity on the disks 12 .
- the thermal asperity circuit 64 can provide an output signal, command, etc. to the controller 52 when an asperity is detected. Additionally, the thermal asperity circuit 64 may provide the output signal, command, etc. to the I/O buffer 54 for transmission to an external device such as a test station.
- FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a thermal asperity circuit 64 of the present invention.
- the thermal asperity compensation circuit 64 includes a preamplifier 66 that is coupled to one of the heads 20 .
- the read signal is first amplified by the preamplifier 66 , and then provided to a variable gain amplifier (VGA) 68 .
- VGA variable gain amplifier
- the amplified read signal is also provided as one input to the noninverting terminal of a threshold detector 70 .
- the inverting terminal of the threshold detector 70 is coupled to a threshold signal which is representative of a typical level of a thermal asperity.
- the threshold signal may be provided by the controller 52 .
- the output of the threshold detector 70 is used to control a multiplexor 72 , a feedforward filter 74 and a feedback filter 76 , as described in detail in the following sections.
- the VGA 68 amplifies the read signal that is then provided to a continuous time filter 78 .
- the output of the VGA 68 is a function of a gain correction signal S G of a gain tracking loop 80 and a gain loop acquisition loop 82 .
- the continuous time filter 78 is a 7-pole, 2-zero equi-ripple filter for standard signal conditioning, as is known in the art.
- the continuous time filter 78 limits the received signal's bandwidth to prevent aliasing.
- the continuous time filter 78 is a low pass filter with a cut-off frequency that is less than half the sampling rate of sampler 84 .
- Continuous time filter 78 may also provide some equalization of the analog signal.
- the output of the continuous time filter 78 is provided to a sampler 84 , which samples the amplified read signal to provide a sequence of analog samples RSAM of the amplified read signal.
- Samples r SAM of the amplified read signal are also provided to the gain loop acquisition circuit 82 and a timing loop acquisition circuit 86 .
- the output of the summing circuit 88 is provided to the gain loop tracking circuit 80 and a timing loop tracking circuit 90 .
- a gain correction signal S G generated by the gain loop tracking circuit 80 and the gain loop acquisition circuit 82 is provided as a variable gain set point for the VGA 68 .
- the timing correction signal S T generated by the timing loop tracking circuit 90 and the timing loop acquisition circuit 86 which provides timing corrections to the sampling rate, is provided to a phase/frequency detector 92 . Phase and frequency errors are provided to a charge pump 94 which accumulates a charge proportional to the timing correction signal S T .
- the charge pump 94 outputs the accumulated charge due to timing error as a voltage to a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) 96 .
- VCO voltage controlled oscillator
- the VCO 96 generates a signal with a corrected frequency which is used to control the sampling frequency of the sampler 84 , and which is simultaneously fed back to the phase/frequency detector 92 for comparison with the timing correction signal S T generated by the timing loop tracking circuit 90 .
- the output of the sampler 84 is directly provided to a FDTS detector 98 via multiplexor 72 .
- the feedforward filter 74 and the feedback filter 76 in the FDTS detector 98 will also utilize a first set of predetermined parameters (such as taps) for normal operation.
- the threshold detector 70 when a thermal asperity is detected by threshold detector 70 , the threshold detector 70 generates a signal to select the multiplexor 72 to multiplex the samples r TA (t) SAM from a 1-D sample filter 100 , to the FDTS detector 98 .
- the 1-D sample filter 100 first differentiates the sample stream and then removes the level shift from the resulting sample stream.
- the multiplexor 72 also provides a signal to the feedforward filter 74 and the feedback filter 76 in the FDTS detector 98 , to utilize a second set of predetermined parameters (such as taps) for processing the read signal. Samples from the FDTS detector 98 are then generated as output signal r OUT (t).
- the threshold detector 100 also provides an output that is provided to the controller 52 .
- the circuit shown in FIG. 3 is also disclosed in Application No. 049,494, which is assigned to the same assignee, and is hereby incorporated by reference.
- the disks 12 are rotated by the spindle motor 14 and the controller 52 may establish a threshold parameter for the threshold detector 70 .
- the controller 52 may then generate signals, commands, etc. to move the heads 20 to the parking zones 34 of the disks 12 .
- the heads 20 may fly for a predetermined time interval to insure that the system is stable. For example, the heads may fly in the parking zone for 5 minutes.
- An asperity on the disks 20 may cause a variation in the sensing voltage of the head 20 to exceed the threshold value provided to the threshold detector 70 .
- the threshold detector 70 then provides an output to the controller 52 .
- the controller 52 may have the detection stored in memory 62 and/or provided to the I/O buffer 54 for transmission to an external source such as a test station.
- the controller 52 can further generate signals, commands, etc. to incrementally move the heads 20 across the parking zones in accordance with a seek routine.
- the thermal asperity circuit 64 can detect asperities as the heads 20 are incrementally moved across the parking zones. Both the presence of an asperity and the location of the asperity may be stored in memory 62 and/or provided to the I/O buffer 54 .
- the present invention thus provides a technique to detect asperities in the parking zones of the disks 20 assembled within a disk drive without significantly changing the disk drive 10 .
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- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to a method for detecting an asperity on a parking zone of a disk.
- 2. Background Information
- Hard disk drives contain a plurality of heads that are coupled to a number of magnetic disks. The heads can read information by sensing the magnetic fields of the disks, and write information by varying the magnetic fields of the disks. Information is typically stored within data sectors that are located on annular tracks of the disks.
- The heads are typically attached to an actuator arm and a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor can be energized to move the heads to different tracks of the disks.
- Each read/write head has an air bearing surface that cooperates with an airflow generated by the rotating disk to create an air bearing between the head and the disks surface. The air bearing reduces mechanical wear between the head and the adjacent disk surface. It is desirable to design an optimum air bearing that will minimize mechanical wear while maximizing the magnetic coupling between the disk and the head.
- Some heads contain a magneto-resistive (MR) material that is used to sense the magnetic field of the disks. The resistance of the magneto-resistive material will vary linearly with variations in the magnetic field. The magneto-resistive material is coupled to a current source. Variations in the magnetic field of the disk will cause a corresponding change in the magneto-resistive resistance and the voltage sensed across the magneto-resistive element. MR heads typically have a higher bit density than other types of disk drive heads.
- The disks may have one or more asperities that make physical contact with the heads. The asperity may be a particle that resides on the disk, or an irregularity in the disk surface. The contact between the asperity and the head may cause a momentary increase in temperature of the magneto-resistive material. The increase in temperature will increase the resistance and corresponding voltage sensed across the magneto-resistive element. There have been developed thermal asperity detection circuits that will detect and compensate for the variation in the read signal caused by contact between the head and an asperity.
- During operation of the disk drive the heads are located adjacent to the data fields of the disks. When the disk drive is powered down the heads may be moved to parking zones of the disks. The parking zones are typically areas of the disks that have no data. The disk drive may be subject to shock and/or vibration loads that cause the heads to slap the disks. Head slapping may cause damage to the disks and/or heads. Placing the heads in non-data parking zones of the disks insure that data is not corrupted from a head slapping event.
- The surfaces of the disks are typically inspected with a disk certifier before being assembled into a hard disk drive. The disk certifier may include optical elements that are used to detect the surfaces of the disks. The certifiers are used to detect and possibly correct defective disks.
- Sometimes an asperity is formed after the disks have been inspected and assembled into a drive. For example, an asperity may be formed in the parking zone of a disk during the assembly process. The asperity may decrease the life and reliability of the disk drive. It would be desirable to detect an asperity in the parking zone of a disk after the disk drive has been assembled to screen for defective products before the drive is shipped to a customer.
- One embodiment of the present invention is a hard disk drive which has a controller that can move a head to a parking zone of a disk. The disk drive may include a thermal asperity detection circuit that is coupled to the head and can detect an asperity in the parking zone of the disk.
- FIG. 1 is a top view of an embodiment of a hard disk drive of the present invention;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic of an electrical system of the hard disk drive;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic of a thermal asperity detection circuit of the electrical system.
- In general the present invention provides a method for detecting an asperity in a non-data parking zone of a disk in a hard disk drive. The method includes the steps of moving the heads of the disk drive adjacent to the parking zones of the disks, and then detecting asperities in the parking zones with a thermal asperity detection circuit.
- Referring to the drawings more particularly by reference numbers, FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a
hard disk drive 10 of the present invention. Thedisk drive 10 may include one or moremagnetic disks 12 that are rotated by aspindle motor 14. Thespindle motor 14 may be mounted to abase plate 16. Thedisk drive 10 may further have acover 18 that encloses thedisks 12. - The
disk drive 10 may include a plurality ofheads 20 located adjacent to thedisks 12. Theheads 20 may have separate write and read elements (not shown) that magnetize and sense the magnetic fields of thedisks 12. By way of example, theheads 20 may include magneto-resistive read elements. - Each
head 20 may be gimbal mounted to aflexure arm 22 as part of a head gimbal assembly (HGA). Theflexure arms 22 are attached to anactuator arm 24 that is pivotally mounted to thebase plate 16 by abearing assembly 26. Avoice coil 28 is attached to theactuator arm 24. Thevoice coil 28 is coupled to amagnet assembly 30 to create a voice coil motor (VCM) 32. Providing a current to thevoice coil 28 will create a torque that swings theactuator arm 24 and moves theheads 20 across thedisks 12. - The
voice coil motor 32 can move theheads 20 to aparking zone 34 of eachdisk 12. Theparking zone 34 is an area that does not contain any data. Theheads 20 are typically moved to theparking zones 20 when thedisk drive 10 is powered down. - The
hard disk drive 10 may include a printedcircuit board assembly 36 that includes a plurality of integratedcircuits 38 coupled to a printedcircuit board 40. The printedcircuit board 38 is coupled to thevoice coil 28,heads 20 andspindle motor 14 by wires (not shown). - FIG. 2 shows a schematic of an
electrical system 50 that can control thedisk drive 10. Thesystem 50 includes acontroller 52 that is connected to an input/output (I/O)buffer 54, voice coilmotor control circuit 56, spindlemotor control circuit 58, read/writechannel circuit 60,memory 62 and a thermalasperity detection circuit 64. The I/O buffer 54 provides an interface with an external source such as a personal computer. The voicecoil control circuit 56 and spindlemotor control circuit 58 contain drivers, etc. to control the voice coil motor and spindle motor, respectively. The voicecoil motor circuit 56 and spindlemotor control circuit 58 operate in accordance with signals, commands, etc. from thecontroller 52. - The
controller 52 may be a processor that can perform software routines in accordance with instructions and data.Memory 62 may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. Thethermal asperity circuit 64 can detect an asperity on thedisks 12. Thethermal asperity circuit 64 can provide an output signal, command, etc. to thecontroller 52 when an asperity is detected. Additionally, thethermal asperity circuit 64 may provide the output signal, command, etc. to the I/O buffer 54 for transmission to an external device such as a test station. - FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a
thermal asperity circuit 64 of the present invention. The thermalasperity compensation circuit 64 includes apreamplifier 66 that is coupled to one of theheads 20. When reading data thehead 20 generates a read signal that corresponds to the magnetic field of thedisk 12. The read signal is first amplified by thepreamplifier 66, and then provided to a variable gain amplifier (VGA) 68. The amplified read signal is also provided as one input to the noninverting terminal of athreshold detector 70. The inverting terminal of thethreshold detector 70 is coupled to a threshold signal which is representative of a typical level of a thermal asperity. The threshold signal may be provided by thecontroller 52. The output of thethreshold detector 70 is used to control amultiplexor 72, afeedforward filter 74 and afeedback filter 76, as described in detail in the following sections. - The
VGA 68 amplifies the read signal that is then provided to acontinuous time filter 78. The output of theVGA 68 is a function of a gain correction signal SG of again tracking loop 80 and a gainloop acquisition loop 82. In one embodiment, thecontinuous time filter 78 is a 7-pole, 2-zero equi-ripple filter for standard signal conditioning, as is known in the art. In particular, thecontinuous time filter 78 limits the received signal's bandwidth to prevent aliasing. As such, thecontinuous time filter 78 is a low pass filter with a cut-off frequency that is less than half the sampling rate ofsampler 84.Continuous time filter 78 may also provide some equalization of the analog signal. The output of thecontinuous time filter 78 is provided to asampler 84, which samples the amplified read signal to provide a sequence of analog samples RSAM of the amplified read signal. - Samples rSAM of the amplified read signal are also provided to the gain
loop acquisition circuit 82 and a timingloop acquisition circuit 86. The output of the summingcircuit 88 is provided to the gainloop tracking circuit 80 and a timingloop tracking circuit 90. A gain correction signal SG generated by the gainloop tracking circuit 80 and the gainloop acquisition circuit 82, is provided as a variable gain set point for theVGA 68. The timing correction signal ST generated by the timingloop tracking circuit 90 and the timingloop acquisition circuit 86, which provides timing corrections to the sampling rate, is provided to a phase/frequency detector 92. Phase and frequency errors are provided to acharge pump 94 which accumulates a charge proportional to the timing correction signal ST. In response, thecharge pump 94 outputs the accumulated charge due to timing error as a voltage to a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) 96. TheVCO 96 generates a signal with a corrected frequency which is used to control the sampling frequency of thesampler 84, and which is simultaneously fed back to the phase/frequency detector 92 for comparison with the timing correction signal ST generated by the timingloop tracking circuit 90. - During normal operation, the output of the
sampler 84 is directly provided to aFDTS detector 98 viamultiplexor 72. Thefeedforward filter 74 and thefeedback filter 76 in theFDTS detector 98 will also utilize a first set of predetermined parameters (such as taps) for normal operation. However, when a thermal asperity is detected bythreshold detector 70, thethreshold detector 70 generates a signal to select themultiplexor 72 to multiplex the samples rTA(t)SAM from a 1-D sample filter 100, to theFDTS detector 98. The 1-D sample filter 100 first differentiates the sample stream and then removes the level shift from the resulting sample stream. In one embodiment, thesample filter 100 is a discrete time filter having a transfer function of T(D)=1-D, where D is a delay factor. Depending upon system partial response parameters, D may be vary from D2 to DN, where N is an integer. When a thermal asperity is encountered, themultiplexor 72 also provides a signal to thefeedforward filter 74 and thefeedback filter 76 in theFDTS detector 98, to utilize a second set of predetermined parameters (such as taps) for processing the read signal. Samples from theFDTS detector 98 are then generated as output signal rOUT(t). Thethreshold detector 100 also provides an output that is provided to thecontroller 52. The circuit shown in FIG. 3 is also disclosed in Application No. 049,494, which is assigned to the same assignee, and is hereby incorporated by reference. - Referring to FIGS.1-3, in operation, the
disks 12 are rotated by thespindle motor 14 and thecontroller 52 may establish a threshold parameter for thethreshold detector 70. Thecontroller 52 may then generate signals, commands, etc. to move theheads 20 to theparking zones 34 of thedisks 12. Theheads 20 may fly for a predetermined time interval to insure that the system is stable. For example, the heads may fly in the parking zone for 5 minutes. An asperity on thedisks 20 may cause a variation in the sensing voltage of thehead 20 to exceed the threshold value provided to thethreshold detector 70. Thethreshold detector 70 then provides an output to thecontroller 52. Thecontroller 52 may have the detection stored inmemory 62 and/or provided to the I/O buffer 54 for transmission to an external source such as a test station. - The
controller 52 can further generate signals, commands, etc. to incrementally move theheads 20 across the parking zones in accordance with a seek routine. Thethermal asperity circuit 64 can detect asperities as theheads 20 are incrementally moved across the parking zones. Both the presence of an asperity and the location of the asperity may be stored inmemory 62 and/or provided to the I/O buffer 54. - The present invention thus provides a technique to detect asperities in the parking zones of the
disks 20 assembled within a disk drive without significantly changing thedisk drive 10. - While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that this invention not be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art.
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