Abstract

A method of manufacturing thin film magnetic heads, including the steps of forming, on one surface of a substrate, a plurality of electromagnetic transducer elements and a plurality of input and output terminals electrically connected to the transducer elements, forming a protection layer on the surface of the substrate to cover at least the transducer elements, forming terminal cover layers and a seed layer thereof on the surface in order to cover the input and output terminals, respectively, and forming identification marks for identifying the magnetic head on the protection layer by laser beam machining. The identification mark forming step is performed during the terminal cover layer forming step.