Optical disc apparatus

• US 5,528,571 A
• Filed: 06/07/1994
• Issued: 06/18/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Niwa, Yoshikatsu, Funahashi, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Georgia Y.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Edun, Muhammad N.
• Application Number:
  US08/254,971
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 369/54, 369/58, 369/53, 369/59, 369/60, 369/47, 369/48, 369/49, 369/32, 369/124, 360/55, 360/48, 360/53, 360/54
• US Class Current: 369/53.17
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1883 Methods for assignment of alternate areas for defective areas
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10759 content data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1893 using linear replacement to relocate data from a defective block to a non-contiguous spare area, e.g. with a secondary defect list [SDL]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1896 using skip or slip replacement to relocate data from a defective block to the next usable block, e.g. with a primary defect list [PDL]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0037 with discs

Abstract

A disc driving apparatus using SSA (sector slipping algorithm) for defective sectors and LRA (linear replacement algorithm). This disc driving apparatus is simple in arrangement and can reproduce data at high speed in a simple processing on the basis of attribute data representing whether a defective sector is processed by the SSA or the LRA. This disc driving apparatus includes an optical head for reproducing data recorded in an optical disc, a drive controller for controlling operation of the optical head, a memory for temporarily storing reproduced data, a DMA (dynamic memory access) controller for controlling an access to the memory, and a system controller for controlling the drive controller and the DMA controller by supplying first and second command signals thereto in response to a main command signal requesting a write or read operation on a series of sectors.

Claims

1. A disc driving apparatus for reproducing information signals recorded in a series of unit recording areas of a disc type recording medium, a defective area of the series of unit recording areas being substituted by a following unit recording area, said disc driving apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing the information signals recorded in said disc type recording medium;

first control means for controlling an operation of said reproducing means;

memory means for temporarily storing the information signals reproduced by said reproducing means;

second control means for controlling an operation of said memory means; and

system control means responsive to a main command signal for supplying a first command signal and a second command signal to said first control means and said second control means, respectively, said first command signal indicating to reproduce all unit areas indicated in said main command signal and all defective areas existing among the unit areas indicated in said main command signal, and said second command signal indicating not to write the information signal reproduced from the defective area into said memory means.

2. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said second command signal comprises at least first command data for consecutive defective areas and second command data for consecutive effective recording areas.

3. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said second control means includes a pair of command data memories, and said system control means controls said pair of command data memories to store the command data alternately and supplies the next command data to one of the pair of command data memories when said system control means receives answer signal data, which indicates that the operation in accordance with the command data stored in said one of the pair of command data memories is finished, from said second control means.

4. A disc driving apparatus for recording information signals in a series of unit recording areas of a disc type recording medium, a defective area of the series of unit recording areas being substituted by a following unit recording area, said disc driving apparatus comprising:

recording means for recording the information signals to said disc type recording medium;

first control means for controlling an operation of said recording means;

memory means for temporarily storing the information signals which are to be recorded in said disc type recording medium;

second control means for controlling an operation of said memory means; and

system control means responsive to a main command signal for supplying a first command signal and a second command signal to said first control means and said second control means, respectively, said first command signal indicating to record all unit areas indicated in said main command signal and all defective areas existing among the unit areas indicated in said main command signal, and said second command signal indicating not to read the information signal corresponding to the position of the defective area.

5. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said second command signal comprises at least first command data for consecutive defective areas and second command data for consecutive effective recording areas.

6. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said second control means includes a pair of command data memories, and said system control means controls said pair of command data memories to store the command data alternately and supplies the next command data to one of the pair of command data memories when said system control means receives answer data, which indicates that the operation in accordance with the command data stored in said one of the pair of command data memories is finished, from said second control means.

7. A disc driving apparatus for recording information signals to a series of unit recording areas of a disc type recording medium, a first defective area of the series of unit recording areas being substituted by a following unit recording area and a second defective area of the unit recording area being substituted by an alternate recording area which is located apart from said series of unit recording areas, said disc driving apparatus comprising:

recording means for recording the information signals to said disc type recording medium;

first control means for controlling an operation of said reproducing means;

memory means for temporarily storing the information signals which are to be recorded;

second control means for controlling an operation of said memory means; and

system control means responsive to a main command signal for supplying a first command signal and a second command signal to said first control means and said second control means, respectively, said first command signal indicating to record all unit areas indicated in said main command signal and all first defective areas existing among the unit areas indicated in said main command signal, and said second command signal indicating not to read out the information signal corresponding to the first defective areas when the first defective area exists in the area indicated by said main command signal, and said first command signal indicating to record all unit areas indicated in said main command signal and all second defective areas existing among the unit areas indicated in said main command signal and to record the information signal corresponding to the second defective area to the alternate recording areas after recording all the unit areas.

8. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said second command signal comprises at least first command data for consecutive defective areas and second command data for consecutive effective recording areas.

9. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said second control means includes a pair of command data memories, and said system control means controls said pair of command data memories to store the command data alternately and supplies the next command data to one of the pair of command data memories when said system control means receives answer data, which indicates that the operation in accordance with the command data stored in said one of the pair of command data memories is finished, from said second control means.

10. A disc driving apparatus for recording information signals to and reproducing from a series of unit recording areas of a disc type recording medium, a first defective area of the series of unit recording areas being substituted by a following unit recording area and a second defective area of the series of unit recording areas being substituted by an alternate recording area which is located apart from said series of unit recording areas, said disc driving apparatus comprising:

recording and reproducing means for recording the information signals to and reproducing the information signals from said disc type recording medium;

first control means for controlling an operation of said recording and reproducing means;

memory means for temporarily storing the information signals reproduced from said recording and reproducing means and the information signals which are to be recorded by said recording and reproducing means;

second control means for controlling an operation of said memory means; and

system control means responsive to a main command signal for supplying a first command signal and a second command signal to said first control means and said second control means, respectively, said first command signal indicating to record or reproduce all unit areas indicated in said main command signal and all first defective areas existing among the unit areas indicated in said main command signal, and said second command signal indicating not to read out or not to store the information signal corresponding to the first or second defective areas when the first or second defective areas exist in the area indicated by said main command signal.

11. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said second command signal comprises at least first command data for consecutive defective areas and second command data for consecutive effective recording areas.

12. The disc driving apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said second control means includes a pair of command data memories, and said system control means controls said pair of command data memories to store the command data alternately and supplies the next command data to one of the pair of command data memories when said system control means receives answer data, which indicates that the operation in accordance with the command data stored in said one of the pair of command data memories is finished, from said second control means.