A mold used to manufacture, through metal mold casting, a damper that is
fixed onto a housing in a disc drive and reduces a vibration of the
housing, the disc drive recording information in and reproducing
information from a recording medium. The mold includes a sectionally
concave body that defines a shape of the damper, a first gate that
introduces molten metal to the body from a runner, and is provided on a
first side opposite to a concave of the body, and a second gate that
introduces the molten metal to an overflow well from the body, and is
provided at least one of a second side perpendicular to the first side,
and a third side perpendicular to the second side and parallel to the
first side.