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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2010
Eiji Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Eiji Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is provided an optical disc drive for playing data from a loaded optical disc medium. A controller of the optical disc drive judges whether the processing command has been received and whether a reset command has been received, measures a time between a reception of the processing command and a reception of the reset command in a case where the processing of the received processing command does not end until the reception of the processing command, determines a processing time limit shorter than the measured time, and in a case where the processing of the received processing command does not end until the decided processing time limit has elapsed after the reception of the processing command, stops the processing of the processing command and notifies that the processing of the processing command has been stopped to the host device.