Patent ID: 7304921
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording control device controlling a data recording with respect to a plurality of sectors in a recording region of a recording medium, said recording control device comprising: a verification means for writing data to be written to a first sector in the recording medium when receiving a write request to the recording medium, then reading out the data from the first sector, and performing a verification process comparing the data to be written with the read out data, and a processing means for writing the data to be written to a second sector other than the first sector on condition that said verification means decides that a comparison result is disagreement, and sending attribute data indicating that the first sector is a defective sector to a management data section, further comprising: a decision means for deciding whether the attribute data indicating the existence of either a defective sector or a non-defective sector in the sector selected in the plurality of sectors is sent to the management data section when receiving the write request to the recording medium, wherein said verification means performs the verification process by using the selected sector as the first sector on condition that said decision means decides that the attribute data indicating the existence of either a defective sector or a non-defective sector in the selected sector is not sent to the management data.