Patent ID: 8467142

Claim:
A recording medium comprising: a plurality of tracks evenly spaced from one another; and a separating section between each track, for separating the plurality of tracks from one another, each of the plurality of tracks including: a recording section for recording information therein; and a non-recording section made of nonmagnetic material in which no information is to be recorded; and the non-recording section being formed continuously with two of the separating sections adjacent to the track, the recording medium including at least one pair of a first region and a second region, the first region being a region in which (i) at least a portion of a non-recording section on a first track, (ii) at least a portion of a non-recording section on a second track, and (iii) a portion of a recording section formed on a third track are positioned identically at a track direction position along a circumferential direction of the recording medium, and a second region being a region in which (i) at least a portion of the non-recording section on the first track, (ii) at least a portion of a non-recording section on the third track, and (iii) a portion of a recording section formed on the second track are positioned identically at a track direction position along the circumferential direction of the recording medium, where the first track is any given one of the plurality of tracks, the second track and the third track are two tracks provided side by side with the first track.