Patent ID: 7206161

Claim:
A servo track verification apparatus for verifying a servo track formed on a tape-like recording medium, comprising: an input unit allowing a user to input information; a tape drive unit causing the tape-like recording medium to run on a predetermined route; a measurement unit provided adjacent to the predetermined route of the tape-like recording medium and configured to detect the servo track on the running tape-like recording medium driven by the tape drive unit, to output a track detection signal; a storage unit storing a plurality of functions each of which is uniquely determinable by the information to be provided through the input unit; and an arithmetic unit configured to determine an oscillation amount of the servo track from the track detection signal output from the measurement unit, using a function determined on the basis of the information provided through the input unit, the function used for determining the oscillation amount of the servo track being retrievable from among the plurality of functions stored in the storage unit.