Patent ID: 7289411

Claim:
An optical disc apparatus comprising: an optical disc driver for rotating an optical disc; an optical pick-up for recording/reproducing data to/from said optical disc; an optical pick-up driver for driving said optical pick-up in a radial direction of said optical disc; a controller for controlling operation of said optical disc driver and operation of said optical pick-up driver, said controller delaying seek movement of said optical pick-up driver to allow driving operation of said optical disc driver when a seek request is made while said optical disc driver is being driven such that when a read command or a write command is received from a host device, initiation of said seek movement is delayed for a predetermined duration of time which is within a time allowed by the host device as an execution duration for the read command or the write command; and a detector for detecting rotation speed of said optical disc, wherein a duration of said delay is a time established in accordance with said rotation speed of said optical disc and wherein the duration of said delay is established as a time established so as to become shorter as said rotation speed of said optical disc increases.