Patent ID: 8786971

Claim:
A magnetic recording apparatus comprising: a head slider comprising read and write elements; and a magnetic recording medium comprising: a plurality of magnetically recordable recording tracks comprising a magnetic land width L 1 , a wide land track having a magnetic land width L 2 larger than L 1 , a plurality of first non-recording sections comprising a width G 1 , each of the plurality of first non-recording sections provided between adjacent recording tracks, and a second non-recording section comprising a width G 2 larger than the width G 1 of the first non-recording sections, wherein the magnetic land width L 1 of the recording track is smaller than a bottom read width BRW of the read and write elements, the magnetic land width L 2 of the wide land track is larger than the bottom read width BRW of the read and write elements, the wide land track and the second non-recording section are provided in a sweep width of the head slider, and the BRW is an actual value of width between positions at which a signal intensity rises spanning both sides of a signal intensity profile of the read element.