Disk drive apparatus and read error recovery procedure therein

摘要

When a sharp change in signal judged due to thermal asperities has appeared, a disk drive apparatus according to the present invention repeats the unidirectional seek operation in a region centered on the belonging cylinder position of the track in which the read error has occurred as one data recovery operation, then scrubs and removes the thermal asperities by putting the component surface around the MR head into positive contact with the asperities, thereby eliminating the fundamental cause of a read error caused by thermal asperities.