Patent ID: 7023652

Claim:
A method of controlling seeking of a transducer that is adjacent to a rotatable disk in a disk drive, the method comprising: seeking the transducer from an initial track to a target track on the disk based on a current command; regulating the current command based on a location of the transducer and a location of an addressed data block on the disk; and determining an expected seek time and an expected rotational latency time based on the location of the transducer and the location of an addressed data block, wherein regulating the current command comprises regulating the current command based on the expected rotational latency time and the expected seek time, wherein determining an expected seek time and an expected rotational latency time comprises: determining the expected seek time based on the initial track and the target track; and determining the expected rotational latency time based on an expected location of the transducer after seeking to the target track and based on the location of the addressed data block, and wherein determining the expected seek time comprises selecting the expected seek time from among a plurality of expected seek times based on the initial track and the target track.