Patent ID: 7542229

Claim:
A magnetic recording-reproducing apparatus for recording or reproducing information on or from a magnetic recording medium constituted of plural recording areas containing sectors joined together, comprising: a memorizing unit for memorizing positional deviation information of the sectors at a boundary between adjacent recording areas, and a controlling unit for controlling movement of a magnetic recording head in accordance with the positional deviation information in the memorizing unit when the magnetic recording head moves between the sectors at the boundary between adjacent recording areas, wherein the positional deviation information includes: a deviation δ in a direction perpendicular to a relative velocity vector of the magnetic head to the magnetic recording medium at a rear end sector of the recording area and parallel to the face of the magnetic recording medium, a deviation γ in a direction parallel to the relative velocity vector of the magnetic head at the rear end sector of the recording area and parallel to the face of the magnetic recording medium, an angle ψ between the relative velocity vector at the rear end sector of the recording area and a relative velocity vector at a first front end sector of a recording area adjacent to the recording area when the origins of the relative velocity vectors are superposed by parallel shift, and a deviation η which is a difference in magnitude between the relative velocity vector at the rear end sector of the recording area and a relative velocity vector at a second front end sector of the adjacent recording area.