Patent ID: 8072852
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disc drive having the ability to write data on both a write-once disc and a rewritable disc, the drive comprising: disc recognizing means for recognizing the type of a given optical disc as a write-once disc or a rewritable disc; track skipping detection signal generating means for outputting track skipping detection signal when a first condition on tracking error is satisfied if the given optical disc, on which data is being written, has turned out to be a write-once disc or when a second condition on tracking error, which is different from the first condition, is satisfied if the given optical disc has turned out to be a rewritable disc; and a control section for stopping writing the data on receiving the track skipping detection signal while the data is being written, wherein the track skipping detection signal generating means includes: wherein if the disc recognizing means has recognized the given optical disc as a write-once disc, the second track skipping detecting means is either disabled or inactivated.