Patent ID: 6307704
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording medium for storing data to be reproduced by a plurality of recording/reproducing heads, said recording medium comprising:a plurality of data tracks extending in a moving direction of said recording medium and arranged with a track pitch ""p"" in a normal direction perpendicular to said moving direction, each of said data tracks having a plurality of data blocks arranged in said moving direction, a plurality of said data blocks arranged in said normal direction forming a data area; anda servo-burst area disposed between each adjacent two of said data area and having a signal pattern arranged in a single column or two columns extending in said normal direction, said servo-burst area including a periodic servo-burst pattern having a period .lambda. in said normal direction, wherein .lambda.=2p X n/m, given n and im being natural numbers and prime to each other, with a relationship n/m<2 therebetween.