Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive capable of preventing
the deterioration of performance. In one embodiment, a disk drive
includes a disk medium; a head capable of performing a read/write
operation for accessing the disk medium to read information from and to
write information to the disk medium; a head controller for controlling
the position of the head so that the head describes a substantially
spiral trajectory relative to the disk medium; and a controller capable
of controlling the head controller, of performing a read/write operation
for reading or writing information with reference to an identifier table
associating sector identifiers identifying sectors on a specified track
with logical block addresses, and of creating an identifier table for a
track to be accessed next during the read/write operation.