Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Drive Control Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- Hiroaki Murai, Yoshinori Inoue, Takehiro Ogawa and Satoru Fukase, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a disk drive that uses a head to write data at any position on a magnetic disk.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After the power supply of a disk drive that uses a head to write data at any position on a disk or read data written at any position is turned on, the first initial conditions for the disk drive that are needed to receive a command from outside and execute the command are determined. The disk drive is then brought to a state in which it can receive the command but the spindle motor is not started. After the disk drive is ...

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