Patent ID: 7477578
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk recording device comprising: recording sections configured to record titles on a disk based on a management method in which additional recording and erasing of each title is possible, and each of the titles is recorded consecutively in a recording region, and the recorded each title is managed by a manager table which corresponds with a title candidate attached before a finalizing processing is carried out; a start position; and size, and in a case where a recorded title is erased, a region where erasure has been done becomes a recordable empty region and reference to the start position and size from the title candidate of the erased title becomes impossible on the manager table; and a first control section configured to designate an appropriate empty region for recording the title for which reserve recording is requested, from empty regions present on the disk when the reserve recording of the title on the disk has been requested, the first control section comprising: a second control section configured to designate the empty region with the largest size retrieved at the retrieval section as the recording destination of the title for which direct recording is requested, when direct recording of the title has been requested for the disk.