| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention utilizes the output of a voltage regulator to control the drive voltage to the stepper motor (14) driven transducer positioning system (15, 16, 19a, 19b, 22, 23, 21, 29 20). This technique will significantly reduce the access time. More specifically, in this invention, the output of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (50) is used to control the output voltage level of a voltage regulator circuit (Figure 4) which supplies the voltage of the stepper motor drive transistors (Q3 58; Q2 63; Q1 54). In order to optimize the drive voltage output from the voltage regulator to the stepper motor (14) for each disc drive, a series of seeks is performed using identical starting and target tracks. As each seek is performed, the input to the DAC is incremented by a microprocessor (11) causing the stepper motor drive voltage to be increased in one milli-volt increments. A ring detector (32) (which provides an output count of the number of target track crossings by the transducer (10) before the transducer settles on the target track) monitors the settling time of the head over the center of the target track. The data identifying the voltage regulator output which results in minimum ring-out count is stored and used from then on for that stepper motor disc drive system as the optimum access tuned voltage. This data will be applied by the microprocessor to a DAC, and output from the voltage regulator to the stepper motor drivers during each stepping sequence. Typically, this tuning process is originally accomplished when the disc drive is first powered on and is part of the normal power-on recalibration routine. The disc drive could also be returned on command or by any other interrupt routine parameter such as time or temperature change. Alternatively, the calculated optimum drive voltage could be stored on a non-user accessible track of the disc surface of the disc drive, and automatically accessed as part of the power-on rountine for the disc drive. <IMAGE> <IMAGE></p> |
