A disc drive apparatus includes: a rotational driving unit rotating a disc-shaped recording medium; a recording and/or reproducing unit recording and/or reproducing an information signal on the information recording surface of the disc-shaped recording medium; a print head printing visible information onto a label surface of the disc-shaped recording medium; and a pulse signal generating unit detecting rotation of the rotational driving unit and generating a pulse signal. Further, the apparatus includes a signal processing unit generating a specified address signal where a pulse is generated when a specified address on the disc-shaped recording medium is reproduced; and a control unit carrying out, based on the pulse signal and the specified address signal, disc correlating processing correlating a disc base position where the specified address is recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium and the pulse signal to obtain position information for the disc-shaped recording medium from the pulse signal.