Patent ID: 7830769
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus that performs at least recording on a recording medium including a user-data recording area in which user data can be recorded, a first temporary-management-information recording area in which temporary management information, which should be updated according to the data recording in the user-data recording area, is sequentially recorded, one or plural second temporary-management-information recording areas in which, when the first temporary-management-information recording area is exhausted for update of the temporary management information, the temporary management information is sequentially recorded, and area-use-state presenting areas that are provided in association with the respective second temporary-management-information recording areas and present states of use of the respective second temporary-management-information recording areas according to presence or absence of the information writing, the recording apparatus comprising: recording means for performing the recording on the recording medium; and controlling means for controlling the recording means, wherein the controlling means determines, in response to information recording in the area-use-state presenting area, whether the information recording is successful and controls, when it is determined that the information recording fails, the recording means to record the temporary management information in the second temporary-management-information recording area in which the temporary management information should be recorded following the second temporary-management-information recording area corresponding to the area-use-state presenting area in which the information recording fails and, then, perform information recording in the area-use-state presenting area associated with the second temporary-management-information recording area in which the temporary management information is recorded.