Patent ID: 6775753
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G06F,G11B,G11C

Abstract:
A storage and reproducing apparatus comprising:storage means for storing inputted data therein and for storing management data of said inputted data therein, wherein said storage means has a back-up area; read-out means for reading out said data from said storage means; operating means provided on an apparatus main body; and control means for controlling said read-out means so that new data written in said storage means is read out earlier than said data already stored in said storage means, wherein said storage means stores further management data for reading out said management data of said inputted data into said storage means, said further management data being written in a position other than a start address and an end address of said storage means and back-up data of said further management data being stored in said back-up area; wherein when an instruction to write further data into said storage means is entered by said operating means during a read-out operation by said read-out means, said control means interrupts the read-out operation by said read-out means and starts writing said further data into said storage means; wherein said control means rewrites said management data so that said further data written into said storage means is read out from said storage means continuously after said data whose read-out operation has been interrupted.