Patent ID: 6097683
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording method of an information recording/reproducing apparatus for use with i) a first information recording/reproducing medium which is necessarily contained in a case at recording and ii) a second information recording/reproducing medium which is not necessarily contained in the case at recording, said information recording/reproducing apparatus being capable of handling the information recording/reproducing media both when they are not in the case and when they are in the case, comprising the steps of:a) determining whether said information recording/reproducing media each has a medium identifying information section indicating whether the medium is one of i) the first information recording/reproducing medium which is necessarily contained in the case at recording and ii) the second information recording/reproducing medium which is not necessarily contained in the case at recording,b) determining whether the case is present or absent by using a case presence/absence information section of the case, andc) recognizing a combination of the kind of the information recording/reproducing medium and the presence or absence of the case by using i) first detecting means for detecting the contents of the medium identifying information section and ii) second detecting means for detecting the contents of the case presence/absence information section, said information recording/reproducing apparatus changing a recording mode based on a result of the recognition to one of i) record information onto the information recording/reproducing medium, ii) perform after-defect-inspection recording or defect-inspecting after recording, and iii) inhibit recording of information.