Patent attributes
According to an embodiment, each of a plurality of controller chips included in a magnetic disk device includes a buffer control circuit and an arbitration circuit, and controls a corresponding one of a plurality of actuator systems. The first controller chip is connected to a buffer memory via the buffer control circuit included in the first controller chip, and is connected to the second controller chip. The second controller chip is connected to the first controller chip and the third controller chip. The arbitration circuit included in the second controller chip performs arbitration between data transfer between the third controller chip and the first controller chip and data transfer between the first controller chip and an actuator system controlled by the second controller chip among the plurality of actuator systems.
