Patent ID: 7027372
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data onto/from a recording medium having a recording area where a program can be recorded and a management area where management information for managing the program recorded in the recording area is recorded, comprising: recording means for recording an identifier that is peculiar to the recording medium into said management area and the program into said recording area upon recording; operating means for input information regarding the program which is recorded into said recording area by user operation; memory means for holding the identifier peculiar to said recording medium and information regarding the program which is recorded into said recording area in correspondence to each other; reproducing means for reproducing an identifier of said management area on the recording medium inserted after said recording medium was once ejected before the management information in said management area is updated; comparing means for comparing the identifier reproduced by said reproducing means with the identifier held in said memory means; and control means for controlling said recording means so that the information regarding the program which is recorded into said memory means in correspondence to the identifier peculiar to said recording medium is recorded as said management information when it is decided by said comparing means that the identifier reproduced by said reproducing means and the identifier held in said memory means coincide, wherein said control means responds to an instruction indicating an update of the management information in said management area by controlling said recording means to record in said management area as management information first information inputted by said operating means before said recording medium is ejected and before the management information in the management area is updated and second information inputted by said operation means after said recording medium is inserted.