Patent ID: 6894960
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An information recording apparatus for recording information to a record medium, said information recording apparatus comprising: driver means for writing and reading the information to and from the record medium; record medium determining means for determining a kind of the record medium; finishing processing means for executing a finishing processing of the record medium via the driver means; controlling means for controlling the information recording apparatus; power supplying means for supplying power to the information recording apparatus; and power supply determining means for determining a state of supplying of the power supplying means; wherein the finishing processing means switches the finishing processing based on the kind of the record medium; wherein the power supply determining means determines whether the power is supplied by a battery or supplied by a commercial alternating current power supply; and wherein when the power is supplied by the battery, the finishing processing means does not execute the finishing processing.