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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1994
Matsushira Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The optical-disk recording and reproducing apparatus is provided with an optical head, a reproduction circuit, a detector circuit, a servo circuit, a recording circuit, and a controller. The controller among them performs such control that information is recorded and reproduced on only either lands or grooves in a region where file management information is recorded and reproduced, while information is recorded and reproduced on both lands and grooves for a plurality of tracks or for every zone in a data region, in the case of a land and groove recording optical disk. In the case of a land or groove recording optical disk, the controller performs such control that information is recorded and reproduced at alternate tracks in a region where file management information is recorded and reproduced, while information is continuously recorded and reproduced in the data region. As an optical disk, the track pitch in the region where the file management information is recorded and reproduced is made wider than the diameter of the laser beam.