Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shinichirou Takigawa

Kazuhiro Mihara

Yoshiki Kuno

Yoshitaka Yaguchi

Junichi Komeno

Yuji Tanikawa

Satoshi Kawanaka

Masahiro Okada

Continuous transfer of AV data without a break necessitates to perform replacement processing of a disk access unit and takes labor and time. A characteristic is that an HDD is disposed which writes AV data in a recording medium, that an AV recording/reproducing controller is disposed which, when there is a write error in writing of AV data in a disk access unit which is a minimum unit for continuously accessing the recording medium, controls the HDD such that this disk access unit will be skipped and said AV data will be written in the next disk access unit, that skip processing judging means is disposed, and that a replacement area is not formed in the recording medium.

Recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, medium, and program

In a recording/reproducing apparatus using a hard disk drive (HDD), a connection confirmation/processing program (program for confirming connection with an external equipment and conducting processing required for that connection) which can be executed during starting time of the HDD is stored in a non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) of a microcomputer, and a recording/reproduction control program which cannot be executed until the HDD becomes accessible and is greatly affected by extension of the functions and modification of the specification is stored in the HDD.

Audio visual data recording/reproducing apparatus

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Kyoto, Japan

Shinichirou Takigawa