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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1983
Katsumi Kimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Ishihara, Yokohama, JP;
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A data recording apparatus is provided which has a recording/reproduction head for recording data on or reproducing the data from a recording medium, a moving mechanism for moving the recording/reproducing head on the recording medium, an error detector for detecting an error in accordance with a signal from the recording/reproduction head in the recording mode, and a control section for detecting that an access to a recording start track cannot be made by the recording/reproduction head for recording data, for determining a track number in the vicinity of the recording start track by the recording/reproduction head in accordance with a detection result, and for controlling a moving mechanism to move the recording/reproduction head to a target track ahead of a predetermined number of tracks which correspond to a distance between the target track and the recording start track without performing recording of data on the predetermined number of tracks in accordance with a detection result from a tracking error detector.