Patent ID: 7417821

Claim:
An information recording apparatus, comprising: a magnetic recording medium; a head for writing/reading information to/from the magnetic recording medium; a storage unit; and a controller; wherein tracks are formed on the magnetic recording medium, said tracks being formed on a zonal area at intervals of either a first track pitch or a second track pitch, both of which differ from each other, and, for a reference track defined in said each zonal area, regardless of whether tracks are formed with the first track pitch or the second track pitch in said each zonal area, the first track pitch and the second track pitch are specified so that a position of the head at the time of writing or reading information to or from the reference track is common to the first track pitch and the second track pitch; wherein said storage unit stores a table that specifies a position of the head at the time of writing information to a reference track of each zonal area in which tracks are formed with the first track pitch, and a position of the head at the time of reading information from a reference track of each zonal area in which tracks are formed with the first track pitch; and wherein if a track, which is specified as a target track to or from which information is written or read, is included in a zonal area in which tracks are formed with the second track pitch, said controller determines, through arithmetic operation, a position of the head at the time of writing or reading information to or from the specified track on the basis of information stored in said table.