Patent ID: 7310195

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a drive housing; a storage disk that is rotatably coupled to the drive housing, the storage disk having an inner diameter and an outer diameter; a slider including a read/write head that magnetically interacts with the storage disk, and a slider mover that receives power to position the read/write head at a head-to-disk spacing relative to the storage disk; and a drive circuitry that controls the power that is directed to the slider mover based at least partially upon a radial positioning of the slider relative to the storage disk during a first seek operation in a direction toward the inner diameter and during a second seek operation in a direction toward the outer diameter, wherein a first power profile is used during the first seek operation and a second power profile that is different from the first power profile is used during the second seek operation such that, for at least one radial position encountered during the first seek operation and the second seek operation, a different power level is used in the first power profile than in the second power profile.