Load/Unload technology for disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 857-862

  Albrecht, T R ^a   Sai, F ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic head loading; Inertia latch; Load unload; Start stop

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000701680     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.753798     Document Type: Article

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