Patent ID: 6388413
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A method for controlling the movement of an actuator in a disk drive from a first track to a second track on a target surface, the actuator having a plurality of transducing heads attached to a plurality of arms of the actuator, the method comprising steps of:(a) deter an average access time for each of the plurality of transducers in the disc drive; (b) measuring an amount of time for a head switch from each of the plurality of transducers to the transducer of the plurality of transducing heads having a shortest average access time less than other transducing heads of the plurality of transducing heads; and (c) comparing the average seek time associated with a transducing head on a target surface to an amount of time associated with the average seek time of the transducing head having the shortest average seek time and a head switch from the transducing head with the shortest average access time to a transducing head on the target track.