US 7,538,968 B2
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus
Makoto Asakura, Tokyo (Japan); and Hideo Sado, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 18, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/750,861.
Application 11/750861 is a division of application No. 11/329599, filed on Jan. 11, 2006, granted, now 7,262,932.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-005552 (JP), filed on Jan. 12, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0217057 A1, Sep. 20, 2007
Int. Cl. G11B 5/596 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 360—77.08 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
a reproducing unit that performs a reproducing process on a magnetic recording medium that includes a servo area where servo data used for detecting a position of a magnetic head on the magnetic recording medium is recorded, and a writable data area, arranged side by side with the servo area in the track direction, on which user data is written by the magnetic head, the servo area including a preamble area where a preamble recording pattern that represents data used for providing a clock synchronization of the servo data is formed by a plurality of magnetic sections, and a burst area where data used for detecting a relative position of the magnetic head with respect to a track center position of the servo data is recorded and on which a single burst recording pattern which is a layout pattern that tilts to the preamble recording pattern with a predetermined tilt angle is formed by a plurality of magnetic sections,
the reproducing unit including
a phase detection unit that detects a phase difference of a burst reproduced signal of the burst area from a reproduced signal of the preamble area, based upon sample values at respective points in the preamble area, which are sampled by using a synchronous clock determined by a reproduced signal processing of the preamble area and a plurality of predetermined coefficients, as phase difference information corresponding to a plurality of phase differences; and
a position detection unit that detects position deviation information indicating a relative distance of the magnetic head from the track center position based upon the phase difference information; and
a speed detection unit that detects a frequency fluctuation with respect to the reproduced signal of the preamble area of the burst reproduced signal, and detects a shifting speed of the magnetic head in a radial direction of the magnetic recording medium based upon the detected frequency fluctuation.