Patent ID: 8824080
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A data recording apparatus for storing first data and second data into a tape medium, the first data being main data and the second data being sub data related to the first data, the data recording apparatus comprising: a plurality of buffer segments in which the first data and the second data are accumulated sequentially in the form of one or more successive data sets in a predetermined size, the first and second data being continuously received as a file from a higher level apparatus; determination means that determines whether a data structure of each of the data sets accumulated in the buffer segments includes one or more of the main data and the sub data; management information adding means that adds management information to a corresponding one of the data sets, the management information indicating whether the data structure includes one or more of the main data and the sub data determined by the determination means; and storing control means that controls storing, into the tape medium, the data sets accumulated in the buffer segments and the management information added to the data sets.