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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1999
Shinichi Saeki, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Tsuga, Hyogo, JP;
Hidefumi Ino, Osaka, JP;
Tokuo Nakatani, Osaka, JP;
Yasushi Tamakoshi, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An individual information manager manages individual information of respective disks housed in a disk housing. The individual information includes residual area information indicative of the size of a residual area on which data is recordable. A disk selection controller selects a target disk from the disks housed in the housing by reference to the individual information of the respective disks that is managed by the individual information manager. In this configuration, a target disk can be appropriately selected in view of residual capacities of respective disks used during recording data, even if the user does not specify any disk.