In a disc drive device (10) described as a specific embodiment of the
present invention, AC0 to AC12 of ADIP cluster address are associated
with AU6 to AU18 of an address unit. A high-order digit of a sector
address that has a value of 0 in the case of a former-half cluster
(sectors FC to 0D) and 1 in the case of a latter-half cluster (sectors 0E
to 1F) is associated with AU5. An address bit ABLG for identifying
recording areas of a disc having plural recording areas for land/groove
recording or the like is set at 0. These bits of Au to AU18 and ABLG are
associated with 15 bits s0 to s14 from the lower side of a 16-bit shift
register for generating a pseudo-random number. Moreover, 1 is associated
with the most significant bit s15. Thus, the error correction capability
for high-density recording data can be improved.