摘要 |
A servo system for centering a transducer over boundaries between adjacent servo tracks on a magnetic disk in which the servo tracks are each formed by alternate long and short magnetic segments, with the short segments in one track being centered with the long segments of adjacent tracks. The servo system includes a frequency doubler circuit for producing a uniform frequency square wave signal of double the fundamental frequency of the analog signal picked up by the transducer from the servo encoding, a filter connected with the transducer for producing an analog double frequency signal based on the analog signal from the transducer, a synchronous detector functioning as a multiplier for multiplying the double frequency square wave signal with the analog double frequency signal from the transducer, and a filter for averaging the resultant pulsating position error signal to provide a steady state position error signal for any particular position of the transducer over a pair of adjacent servo tracks. The steady state position error signal is applied to a servo control and servo actuator for moving the transducer until the steady state position error signal reaches zero which corresponds with the desired centered position of the transducer over the boundary between a pair of adjacent servo tracks.
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