Patent ID: 6262860
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A magnetic disk apparatus which includes a plurality of disk type magnetic recording media securely mounted on a rotary shaft of a rotational driving apparatus and a plurality of magnetic heads individually arranged adjacent respective faces of said plurality of disk type magnetic recording media to perform recording and reproduction, comprising:a plurality of recording signal processing means provided respectively for said plurality of magnetic heads;a plurality of reproduction signal processing means provided respectively for said plurality of magnetic heads;recording signal control means for controlling a relationship among recording signals input to said magnetic heads;reproduction signal control means for controlling a relationship among reproduction signals output from said magnetic heads;first driving means for pivoting all of said magnetic heads integrally with each other to position said magnetic heads roughly to predetermined information tracks of the corresponding recording faces of said disk type magnetic recording media;a plurality of second driving means formed of piezoelectric elements provided respectively for said plurality of magnetic heads for positioning the corresponding magnetic heads precisely to the predetermined information tracks of the corresponding recording faces of said disk type magnetic recording media;a plurality of inputting means provided respectively for said plurality of magnetic heads for inputting serial data trains to be recorded; anda plurality of outputting means provided respectively for said plurality of magnetic heads for outputting reproduced serial data trains, whereby a plurality of data trains are recorded and/or reproduced simultaneously,wherein all of said magnetic heads are pivoted integrally with each other by said first driving means so as to be positioned roughly to the predetermined information tracks, whereafter said magnetic heads are individually positioned precisely to the predetermined information tracks of the corresponding recording surfaces of said disk type magnetic recording media by corresponding ones of said second driving means;each of said disk type magnetic recording media is divided into servo areas and data areas, said servo areas containing a plurality of first and second recessed servo marks located on either side of a center of the predetermined information tracks and displaced from each other for detecting a tracking error;said information tracks are separated by recessed guard band grooves;said recording signal control means includes means for converting serial data to be recorded into parallel data having a number of channels corresponding respectively to said plurality of magnetic heads, and said reproduction signal control means includes means for converting parallel data output from said magnetic heads into serial data, whereby serial data are recorded in parallel and recorded parallel data are reproduced as serial data;said first and second recessed servo marks are magnetized in a direction opposite to that of a preceding portion of said plurality of disk type magnetic recording media; andsaid plurality of disk type magnetic recording media are formed on a non-magnetic recording base plate of a plastic material using a molding technique of injection molding.