Preliminary search method for minimizing drop down phenomenon of hard disk drive

摘要

A method for performing a preliminary search for cylinders in a hard disk drive. The method includes the steps of setting a target cylinder upon receiving a sequential data write command from the external device; setting search cylinders and setting a counter value to have a same value as a number of the search cylinders; sequentially searching the search cylinders for the target cylinder until the counter value becomes zero; and writing data on the target cylinder if the counter value is zero. Here, the search cylinders are positioned between the target cylinder and a current cylinder. The current cylinder is the cylinder where a disk head is located currently.