Patent ID: 6018432
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disc drive, comprising:idle detection means for detecting an idle condition for the disc drive, the idle condition comprising the passage of a selected, uninterrupted amount of time since the most recently performed disc drive operation; andcompensation means, responsive to the idle detection means, for compensating for changes in environmental conditions associated with the disc drive by adjusting selected disc drive parameters in order to optimize subsequent disc drive performance, wherein the compensation means utilizes a table of compensation routines, the compensation routines performed in a sequence determined by the order in which the compensation routines appear in the table, wherein the compensation means further reorders the table of compensation routines once at least selected ones of the compensation routines have been performed so that the compensation routines are subsequently performed in a new sequence determined in accordance with the reordering of the table of compensation routines.