Execution Timing Of Self-Calibration; Command Processing During Self-Calibration - Fujitsu MHW2160BJ Product/Maintenance Manual

To compensate torque constant value change depending on cylinder, whole
cylinders from most inner to most outer cylinder are divided into 13 partitions at
calibration in the factory, and the compensation data is measured for
representative cylinder of each partition. This measured value is stored in the SA
area. The compensation value at self-calibration is calculated using the value in
the SA area.

4.5.2 Execution timing of self-calibration

Self-calibration is performed once when power is turned on. After that, the disk
drive does not perform self-calibration until it detects an error.
That is, self-calibration is performed each time one of the following events occur:
•
In the case that the disk drive starts up normally, the first part of self-
calibration starts after a lapse of 100 msec. The execution of first part is
about 150 msec. length. The remains is executed thereafter the transfer to
Active-Idle state which takes about 200 msec.
The latter is interrupted when the disk drive receives a Host command, and it
resumes after next transfer to Active-Idle state.
•
The number of retries to write or seek data reaches the specified value.
•
The error rate of data reading, writing, or seeking becomes lower than the
specified value.

4.5.3 Command processing during self-calibration

This enables the host to execute the command without waiting for a long time,
even when the disk drive is performing self-calibration. The command execution
wait time is about maximum 72 ms.
When the error rate of data reading, writing, or seeking becomes lower than the
specified value, self-calibration is performed to maintain disk drive stability.
If the disk drive receives a command execution request from the host while
performing self-calibration, it stops the self-calibration and starts to execute the
command. In other words, if a disk read or write service is necessary, the disk
drive positions the head to the track requested by the host, reads or writes data,
and then restarts calibration after about 3 seconds.
If the error rate recovers to a value exceeding the specified value, self-calibration
is not performed.
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