According to one embodiment, in a disk drive which performs positioning control of a head on the basis of a servo burst pattern recorded on a disk medium, a servo processor generates a tangent-equivalent value by using a burst value obtained from the servo burst pattern. Furthermore, the servo processor executes an arctangent transform process by an inverse function approximate expression structured on the basis of a relationship between an off-track position and the tangent-equivalent value to detect the off-track position.

 
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