Abstract: A disk drive apparatus mounting socket includes a socket portion which supports a disk drive apparatus, a lead portion which is connected to the disk drive apparatus supported by the socket portion, and a terminal unit which is electrically connected to the lead portion and to circuits on a board. A disk drive apparatus, which is connectable to an information processing unit, includes a connecting unit which connects the disk drive apparatus to the information processing unit, and an interface unit which controls the disk drive apparatus in response to a control signal, a data bus signal, and an address bus signal which are generated by the information processing unit and are inputted to the disk drive apparatus from the information processing unit via the connecting unit.

Abstract: A disk drive apparatus mounting socket includes a socket portion which supports a disk drive apparatus, a lead portion which is connected to the disk drive apparatus supported by the socket portion, and a terminal unit which is electrically connected to the lead portion and to circuits on a board. A disk drive apparatus, which is connectable to an information processing unit, includes a connecting unit which connects the disk drive apparatus to the information processing unit, and an interface unit which controls the disk drive apparatus in response to a control signal, a data bus signal, and an address bus signal which are generated by the information processing unit and are inputted to the disk drive apparatus from the information processing unit via the connecting unit.

Abstract: A disk drive apparatus mounting socket includes a socket portion which supports a disk drive apparatus, a lead portion which is connected to the disk drive apparatus supported by the socket portion, and a terminal unit which is electrically connected to the lead portion and to circuits on a board. A disk drive apparatus, which is connectable to an information processing unit, includes a connecting unit which connects the disk drive apparatus to the information processing unit, and an interface unit which controls the disk drive apparatus in response to a control signal, a data bus signal, and an address bus signal which are generated by the information processing unit and are inputted to the disk drive apparatus from the information processing unit via the connecting unit.

Abstract: A disk drive apparatus mounting socket includes a socket portion which supports a disk drive apparatus, a lead portion which is connected to the disk drive apparatus supported by the socket portion, and a terminal unit which is electrically connected to the lead portion and to circuits on a board. A disk drive apparatus, which is connectable to an information processing unit, includes a connecting unit which connects the disk drive apparatus to the information processing unit, and an interface unit which controls the disk drive apparatus in response to a control signal, a data bus signal, and an address bus signal which are generated by the information processing unit and are inputted to the disk drive apparatus from the information processing unit via the connecting unit.

Abstract: A disk drive is mounted to a circuit board by directly connecting a disk drive apparatus with a circuit board by using a DIP, PLCC, QFP, or PGA mounting method. The disk drive apparatus has an interface for controlling a disk drive in response to a control signal, a data bus signal and an address bus signal outputted from an information processing unit so that the disk drive apparatus may be connected like a memory card of the information processing unit.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording drive having a plurality of magnetic heads each employing a magnetoresistive sensor for the purpose of averaging the time required for sense currents to be caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors to shorten the longest reproducing time and to suppress the degradation of the characteristics due to the electromigration, thereby improving the reliability of the magnetic recording drive, the magnetic recording drive includes circuits for averaging the useful life depending on the currents caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors among the plurality of magnetic heads, whereby the time required for the sense current to be caused to flow through one MR reproducing head is greatly shortened. Therefore, the levels of outputs of the MR reproducing heads can be increased without reduction of the reliability and thus the reliability of the magnetic recording drive can be improved.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording drive having a plurality of magnetic heads each employing a magnetoresistive sensor for the purpose of averaging the time required for sense currents to be caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors to shorten the longest reproducing time and to suppress the degradation of the characteristics due to the electromigration, thereby improving the reliability of the magnetic recording drive, the magnetic recording drive includes circuits for averaging the useful life depending on the currents caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors among the plurality of magnetic heads, whereby the time required for the sense current to be caused to flow through one MR reproducing head is greatly shortened. Therefore, the levels of outputs of the MR reproducing heads can be increased without reduction of the reliability and thus the reliability of the magnetic recording drive can be improved.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording drive having a plurality of magnetic heads each employing a magnetoresistive sensor for the purpose of averaging the time required for sense currents to be caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors to shorten the longest reproducing time and to suppress the degradation of the characteristics due to the electromigration, thereby improving the reliability of the magnetic recording drive, the magnetic recording drive includes circuits for averaging the useful life depending on the currents caused to flow through the respective magnetoresistive sensors among the plurality of magnetic heads, whereby the time required for the sense current to be caused to flow through one MR reproducing head is greatly shortened. Therefore, the levels of outputs of the MR reproducing heads can be increased without reduction of the reliability and thus the reliability of the magnetic recording drive can be improved.

Abstract: A clock timing extraction circuit for use in an information recording/reproducing apparatus has a phase comparator for comparing the reproduced signal with a selected clock signal to generate a phase error signal, a clock signal generation circuit for adjusting frequency to cause the error signal to approach zero according to the phase error signal and outputting a plurality of clock signals having mutually different phase differences, a selection circuit for outputting one of the plurality of clock signals on the basis of a selection signal, a phase difference judgement circuit for determining one of the plurality of clock signals having a minimum phase error (Vdet) and generating a selection signal for selection of the clock signal having the minimum phase difference, and a freeze circuit for blocking an output of the phase comparator until the clock signal having the minimum phase error is selected.

Abstract: A waveform equalizer for processing a signal read by a magnetic head from a magnetic written medium includes a slimming circuit which, in turn, has a first delay unit for delaying the read signal, a first attenuator connected in parallel with the first delay unit, a first differentiating circuit for receiving the output from the first delay unit and the output from the first attenuator, and a resistor connected to a first delay unit side input of the first differential circuit; and a pseudo-peak elimination circuit connected in series with the slimming circuit and including a circuit for separating the from the read signal the read signal or a signal reverse in phase to the read signal, a second delay unit for delaying the separated signal, a second attenuator for attenuating the amplitude of the separated signal, and a second differential circuit for receiving the read signal and the separated, delayed and attenuated signal.

Abstract: A housing for an information recording and reproducing apparatus is adapted for increased storage capacity and an increased operating speed by placing a relatively larger number of relatively smaller magnetic disks each having a relatively smaller mass and a relatively smaller recording and reproducing surface in an enclosure and housing the enclosure for a relatively larger magnetic disc in a box-like frame. A shock absorbing device is disposed between the enclosure and the box-like frame to absorb shock. A circuit assembly for controlling the operation of recording and reproducing is disposed outside the enclosure and between the frame and the enclosure.

Abstract: Because of increase in data recording density on a magnetic disk in recent years, a minute defect which posed no problem in the past exerts adverse influence upon the recording and reproducing characteristics. An object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for detecting minute defects on a magnetic disk. In order to achieve this object, the present invention was made on the basis of the recognition that a large defect on the magnetic disk largely decreases the amplitude of the reproduced signal and shifts its phase, whereas a small defect does not decrease the amplitude of the reproduced signal so largely but causes a phase shift. Therefore, defects on the magnetic disk are detected by monitoring the amplitude decrease and phase shift of the reproduced signal.

Abstract: A waveform equivalent circuit for correcting the asymmetry of the rising and falling slopes of an isolated signal waveform retrieved from a magnetic recording medium so as to restore an acute, symmetric isolated waveform. In operation, the input signal is phase-shifted and attenuated, and then added to the input signal to produce a smaller double peaked waveform, which is modified with an inverted and attenuated version of the input waveform. The input signal waveform is subtracted from the modified double peaked signal waveform to diminish both slope sections, and an acute, symmetric original signal waveform is recreated.