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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Yong Cheol Park, Gwachon-si, KR;
Sung Dae Kim, Gunpo-si, KR;
Yong Cheol Park, Gwachon-si, KR;
Sung Dae Kim, Gunpo-si, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A device and method of reproducing and/or recording data onto a write once recording medium, the recording medium having a data area and a management area, the data area having a spare area. The recording method include: performing a replacement-recording by recording data requested to be recorded in a specified area onto a replacement area in the data area when the specified area is defective or contains data recorded thereon; and recording onto the management area a pair of consecutive entries for managing the replacement-recording when a size of the specified area corresponds to a plurality of consecutive recording-units. One of the pair of consecutive entries includes start address information of the specified area and start address information of the replacement area and another of the pair of consecutive entries includes end address information of the specified area and end address information of the replacement area.