| 摘要 |
A control system for a disk drive operating under the control of a host system for data transfer with a magnetic disk medium. The host system provides a signal indicative of whether the disk drive is in operation in a read-only mode or in a write-only or read-and-write mode. During operation in the write-only and read-and-write modes, the control system inhibits the delivery to the host system of both read data and index pulses during, for example, a disk start-up time, and access time and a transducer loading time, because the data recovered from the disk medium during such times may be inaccurate, inviting inaccurate writing. However, during operation in the read-only mode, the control system constantly permits the delivery of read data and index pulses to the host system with a view to the curtailment of the average read access time.
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