Patent ID: 7185416

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a slider for a thin-film magnetic head, the slider including a slider section and a reproducing head section, the method comprising: fabricating the slider section, the slider section including a recording head and a first medium facing surface that faces toward a rotating recording medium; fabricating the reproducing head section separately from the slider section, the reproducing head section including a reproducing head and a second medium facing surface that faces toward the recording medium; and bonding the slider section and the reproducing head section to each other so that the first medium facing surface and the second medium facing surface are continuous, wherein the first medium facing surface has concavities and convexities for controlling the orientation of the slider section while the recording medium is rotating, wherein the fabricating the slider section includes forming a plurality of recording heads on a first wafer, and wherein the fabricating the reproducing head section includes forming a plurality of reproducing heads on a second wafer.