Data destruction preventing method, recording apparatus provided with data destruction preventing capability, and disc recorded with guard band
First Claim
1. A recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium having at least one recordable area and at least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including either one continuous segment respectively or a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area and said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said recording apparatus comprising:
- data reading means for reading the data from said recording medium;
storing means for storing said control table data read from said control table area by said data reading means;
recording start address calculating means for reading a start address indicating a start position of a recordable segment from said control table data stored in said storing means, and calculating a recording start address in accordance with said start address so as to provide a guard band between said start address and said recording start address for guarding the data of said recorded area; and
control means for recording data onto said recording medium based on said recording start address.
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Abstract
A disc having recordable and recorded areas discretely scattered over it at the same time is formed with a guard band to prevent the recorded area from being destroyed by a track jump caused by an undue impact or vibration applied to the disc during a recording operation. Additionally, storing in memory information of an edge of a recorded area by a predetermined amount before recording, the edge providing a boundary between the recorded area and a recordable area, allows recovery of data in the recorded area destroyed by a track jump caused by an undue impact or vibration applied to a disc.
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21 Claims
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1. A recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium having at least one recordable area and at least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including either one continuous segment respectively or a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area and said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said recording apparatus comprising:
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data reading means for reading the data from said recording medium; storing means for storing said control table data read from said control table area by said data reading means; recording start address calculating means for reading a start address indicating a start position of a recordable segment from said control table data stored in said storing means, and calculating a recording start address in accordance with said start address so as to provide a guard band between said start address and said recording start address for guarding the data of said recorded area; and control means for recording data onto said recording medium based on said recording start address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium having at least one recordable area and at least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including either one continuous segment respectively or a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area and said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said recording apparatus comprising:
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recording/reproducing means for recording data onto the recording medium and reproducing data from the recording medium; storing means for storing recording data from an inputting means for a predetermined duration; determining means for determining whether a segment adjacent to a segment of recordable area to be recorded is a recorded area; and control means for controlling said recording/reproducing means and said storing means such that if said determining means determines said adjacent segment is a recorded area, said recording/reproducing means reproduces recorded data of said adjacent segment, said storing means stores said reproduced recorded data, and said recording/reproducing means records said recording data from said input means stored in said storing means to the segment of said recordable area when said recording/reproducing means has reached the start address of the segment of said recordable area. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A re-recording method for an apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium having at least one recordable area and least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including either one continuous segment respectively or a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said method comprising the steps of:
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searching the recording medium for a recordable area based on data of said control table area; extracting a start address and an end address of a detected recordable area from the data of said control table area; calculating at least one of a recording start address and a recording end address of the detected recordable area based on the extracted address data and a predetermined guard band length; and controlling a recording operation based on a result of said calculation. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A re-recording method for an apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium having at least one recordable area and at least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including either one continuous segment respectively or a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area and said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said method comprising the steps of:
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setting a writing start address and a writing end address of a recordable area on the recording medium based on said control table data which is recorded on said control table area; determining whether an area before said writing start address is a recorded area; subtracting writing start address has been determined a predetermined length from said writing start address and storing a result of said subtraction as a past data reading start address for reading data of a predetermined length from said recorded area only if the area before said writing start address has been determined to be a recorded area; positioning an optical pickup to said past data reading start address; setting a past data reading end address to said writing start address; writing data into storing means based on said past data reading start address and said past data reading end address; and storing inputted data into said storing means and writing the inputted data from said storing means to the recordable area when said past data reading end address has been reached. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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- 20. A recording medium having at least one recordable area and at least one recorded area simultaneously, and a control table area, said recorded area and said recordable area including a plurality of discrete segments respectively, said control table area managing a start address and an end address of said segment or each of said plurality of segments and link information for linking said plurality of segments if said recorded area and said recordable area include said plurality of segments, said recording medium provided with a write-protected guard band of a predetermined length in said recordable area at a portion thereof adjacent to said recorded area.
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