摘要 |
In accordance with the invention, an apparatus and method are provided in which it is possible to determine a type of disc which has been loaded before servoing is locked. A disc is rotated by a spindle motor, and a pickup is gradually moved toward the disc from a position spaced apart from the disc. A peak value of an obtained reflection is detected by a peak hold circuit is stored into a CPU. If the disc is a DVD (by way of example), a single layer DVD has a reflectivity higher than that of a double layer DVD. Accordingly, a single layer DVD and a double layer DVD can be discriminated from each other from the value of the peak reflection value obtained by the peak hold circuit.
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