DISKLIKE STORAGE MEDIUM AND TRACKING METHOD USING THE SAME

摘要

A disklike storage medium on which information is recorded at higher density by reducing the redundancy of the address part and a tracking method using the medium are disclosed. The disklike storage medium where a track is divided into areas and address data is recorded in the areas is so adapted that an error detecting code for identifying the data common to adjacent tracks out of the address data is added to the common data. Thus, a data synchronization processing performed when the address data is reproduced is realized without any special synchronization pattern.