| 摘要 |
A head includes a slider, configured to fly by an air current produced between a surface of a recording medium and a facing surface of the slider, and a head portion which is provided on the slider and records and reproduces information on and from the recording medium. The slider has a negative-pressure cavity, and a pad portion, which is situated on the downstream side of the negative-pressure cavity with respect to the air current, protrudes from the facing surface. Read/write gaps of the head portion are formed in a projected surface of the pad portion. The pad portion has a step portion which is provided on the downstream side of the read/write gaps with respect to the air current and formed extending in a plurality of tiers from the projected surface in the direction of the air current.
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