Patent ID: 7474484

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing data, which has been divided into a prescribed size, from a disk with a head moving in a radial direction of the disk rotating, in response to a reproduction command given from outside, the reproducing apparatus comprising: readout order determination means for determining a readout order of data of the prescribed size so that all the data of the prescribed size can be reproduced continuously while the head goes and returns once in the radial direction of the disk, the data of the prescribed size composing the data specified from the outside; head position control means for controlling a position of the head in the radial direction of the disk so as to continuously reproduce the data of the prescribed size in the readout order determined by the readout order determination means; and rearrangement means for rearranging the data of the prescribed size reproduced from the disk via the head, into a correct reproduction order based on the reproduction command.