Magnetic disk apparatus
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus having a magnetic disk having magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction, and a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magnetic dot lines as one track and sequentially performs read and write on the magnetic dots included in the magnetic dot lines constituting the track, in which the magnetic dots included in each of the magnetic dot lines in each track of the magnetic disk are displaced in the down track direction from the magnetic dots included in the adjacent dot line in the track depending on a possible skew angle between the read/write head and the track so that the magnetic dots are sequentially accessed by the read/write head.
1. A magnetic disk apparatus, comprising:
a magnetic disk comprising magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction; and
a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magnetic dot lines as one track and sequentially performs read and write on the magnetic dots included in the magnetic dot lines constituting the track,
wherein N lines of magnetic dot lines are used as one track in the magnetic disk, and wherein, assuming that a track pitch is T, a bit pitch at zero skew angle is B, and a skew angle is θ, the magnetic dots included in each magnetic dot line are arrayed at a pitch NB in the down track direction, and the magnetic dots included in an n-th magnetic dot line in each track are displaced in the down track direction from the magnetic dots included in a 0-th magnetic dot line in the track by a displacement represented by the following formula: B−(Tn/N)tan θ, where n is an integer from 0 to N-1.
2. The magnetic disk apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the interval between the magnetic dot lines in each track is shorter than an interval between the tracks.