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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2001
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has as an object to accomplish reliable data reproduction in a data reproducing apparatus in which servo operation easily becomes unstable in an unrecorded disc area, and provides a data storage medium whereby the highest address of the reproducible data area is obtained by the optical disc drive, and reproduction is possible using only a normal READ command, without providing a physical area in the volume space. Address information ( ) for an integrity information area ( ) allocated in the first overrun extent in the volume space is recorded to a lead-in area ( ) reproducible by an optical disc drive. As a result, when a disc is inserted to a data reproducing apparatus, address information for the first integrity information in the volume space is recorded to the lead-in area, or the highest address of the reproducible data area is obtained by the data reproducing apparatus following the integrity information, preventing the optical disc drive from accessing an unrecorded disc area.