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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuaki Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Funai Techno-Systems Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
A disk driving device having a disk drive which records data on and retrieves data from a rewritable disk, including a finalizing means which executes a finalizing operation which inhibits writing to the disk, a judgment means which judges whether a rewritable disk has already been finalized, and a formatting means which forcibly executes a formatting of the disk that has been finalized.