Patent ID: 6088177
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An apparatus for writing a track format on a recording medium, the track format having a data recording section made up of a plurality of sectors, each having a sector data block gap at the end thereof, the track format further having a track gap between a last sector and a first sector of the data recording section, the formatting apparatus comprising:a gap write unit for writing a sector data block gap in the last sector of the data recording section, and for writing the track gap next to the previously written sector data block gap of the last sector, the sector data block gap in the last sector and the track gap together forming a pre-writing gap; anda data writing unit for writing the data recording section starting at the end of the pre-writing gap after said gap write unit writes the pre-writing gap, said data writing unit writing a sector data block gap at the end of each sector of the data recording section except the last sector, the data block gap for the last sector having previously been written by said gap write unit.