Optical recording system with error correction and data recording distributed across multiple disk drives
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1. An optical recording system comprising:
- a plurality of optical disk drives, each for being loaded with an optical disk;
a control apparatus, coupled to said plurality of disk drives, for controlling recording of information on and reproducing information from the optical disks, said control apparatus including;
means for separating data to be recorded into a plurality of data segments and recording each data segment on a separate optical disk;
means for generating a check symbol of an error correction code for the data to be recorded;
means for recording said check symbol on at least one optical disk that differs from the optical disks upon which the data segments are recorded;
means for detecting trouble with the plurality of optical disk drives and for identifying the disk drives that are the source of the trouble; and
means for storing accessing information about data that was to be recorded to the disk drives identified as the source of trouble, said accessing information being stored within either of said control apparatus and the disk drives not identified as having trouble.
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Abstract
An optical recording system which separates and records data on optical disks loaded respectively in a plurality of optical disk drives, check symbol of the data to be recorded being recorded on predetermined disks. Information about bad recording or lost data, which caused by the trouble of the optical disk drive, is memorized, and data to be recorded is reproduced by normally recorded and reproduced data, said check symbol and said information.
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1. An optical recording system comprising:
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a plurality of optical disk drives, each for being loaded with an optical disk; a control apparatus, coupled to said plurality of disk drives, for controlling recording of information on and reproducing information from the optical disks, said control apparatus including; means for separating data to be recorded into a plurality of data segments and recording each data segment on a separate optical disk; means for generating a check symbol of an error correction code for the data to be recorded; means for recording said check symbol on at least one optical disk that differs from the optical disks upon which the data segments are recorded; means for detecting trouble with the plurality of optical disk drives and for identifying the disk drives that are the source of the trouble; and means for storing accessing information about data that was to be recorded to the disk drives identified as the source of trouble, said accessing information being stored within either of said control apparatus and the disk drives not identified as having trouble. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An optical recording system comprising:
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a plurality of optical disk drives, each for being loaded with an optical disk; a control apparatus, coupled to said plurality of disk drives, for controlling recording of information on and reproducing information from the optical disks, said control apparatus including; means for separating data to be recorded into a plurality of data segments and recording each data segment on a separate optical disk; means for generating a check symbol of an error correction code for the data to be recorded; means for recording said check symbol on at least one optical disk that differs from the optical disks upon which the data segments are recorded; means for detecting trouble with the plurality of optical disk drives and for identifying the disk drives that are the source of the trouble; means for storing accessing information about data that was to be recorded to the disk drives identified as the source of trouble, said accessing information being stored within either of said control apparatus and the disk drives not identified as having trouble; means for correcting errors in data recovered from optical disks loaded in the optical disk drives identified as the source of the trouble by utilizing said check symbol. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of recording data to and recovering data from a plurality of optical disks loaded within a corresponding plurality of disk drives, the method comprising the steps of:
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separating data to be recorded into a plurality of data segments; generating a check symbol of an error correction code for the data to be recorded; recording each data segment on a separate optical disk; recording said check symbol on at least one optical disk that differs from the optical disks upon which the data segments are recorded; detecting trouble with the plurality of optical disk drives; identifying the disk drives that are the source of the trouble; and storing accessing information about data that was to be recorded to the disk drives identified as the source of trouble, said accessing information being stored within either of said control apparatus and the disk drives not identified as having trouble. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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