Abstract
The response of a pad slider, comprising a leading pad and a trailing pad, due to disk waviness was analyzed by computer simulation. Because pads on the air-bearing surface of the slider are able to occur two pressure peaks that happen severally on the leading edge and trailing edge of the air-bearing surface enabling a pitching motion of the slider, the slider can follow the disk waviness with a wavelength shorter than the slider length. However, the slider cannot follow the disk waviness with a wavelength that is shorter than the length of the pad.
