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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
May. 16, 2011
Applicant:
Kenji Akahoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Akahoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignees:
Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are media recording/reproducing method and device in which recording stop due to over retrials during replacement process and wasteful conversion processing in the recording/reproducing device are suppressed when a method of managing the spare area of a write-once medium by the use of an NAP is employed to manage the spare area of a rewritable medium. During format or replacement process of the medium, the NAP is so updated that defective blocks registered as unusable clusters or as usable cluster typewithin DFL entries in the spare area are not shown.