Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic recording
apparatus capable of generating RRO compensation information that can
expand the disturbance frequency range in which to compensate for RRO.
Embodiments of the present invention describe a magnetic recording
apparatus that uses a plurality of repetitive control systems to detect
repeatable runout during the rotation of a magnetic recording medium for
a frequency characteristic of each of the repetitive control systems. The
magnetic recording apparatus further generates compensation information
to compensate for each of the detected repeatable runout. The magnetic
recording apparatus still further writes the compensation information
generated for each of the repetitive control systems to a servo signal,
thus suppressing and controlling the repeatable runout.