Patent ID: 6512723
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An information storage apparatus for holding an information storage medium in a predetermined position and rotating the information storage medium in a predetermined direction to perform at least information reproduction with respect to the information storage medium, said information storage apparatus comprising:a driver for driving said information storage medium in said predetermined direction; a brake for forcibly stopping rotating said information storage medium; and a controller for selectively executing a forced stop operation in which said driver stops driving the information storage medium and said brake forcibly stops rotating the information storage medium, and a natural stop operation in which said driver only stops driving the information storage medium; wherein said controller receives a predetermined starting signal and allows said driver to start driving said information storage medium, and in a case which the controller allows said natural stop operation to be executed and subsequently receives said starting signal before said information storage medium stops, the information storage medium fails to stop and the controller allows said driver to start driving the information storage medium.