Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sunao Inoue

Akitomo Sasaki

All storage areas constituting a storage medium are checked for defects by successively reading and writing data. If an error that has occurred owing to the checking operation is an error for which retry is possible, the number of times this occurs is accumulated in a retrial-count storage area of a memory. A faulty storage area is detected based upon the type of error that has occurred by checking and/or the number of occurrences that have been accumulated.

Storage device with the ability to check for defects in same

In an information processing method of causing a plurality of information processing apparatuses to process information, the contents of a processing operation for data are stored in an information processing apparatus main body, the stored contents of the processing operation are recorded in a portable recording medium, and the data in another information processing apparatus is processed in accordance with the contents of the processing operation recorded in the recording medium.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Sunao Inoue