Patent ID: 6775466
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G11B,H04L

Abstract:
A disk control apparatus comprising:an interface unit for receiving externally input video and audio data; a data recording and reproducing unit for writing and reading the video and audio data received by said interface unit onto and from a disk apparatus; and a video and audio data management unit for managing a recording area of said disk apparatus by dividing the recording area into a recorded area in which video and audio data have already been recorded and an unrecorded area in which no video and audio data is recorded, and a header information writing unit for writing header information on the video and audio recorded on said disk apparatus into the video and audio data, wherein in response to an external block erasure request, said video and audio data management unit erases an area requested to be erased from the recorded area, adds the area requested to be erased to the unrecorded area, and assigns continuous logical addresses to the video and audio data in the recorded area, said header information writing unit writes at least one recording start information and recording end information to the video and audio data separated by the erased recording area, and said interface unit outputs the video and audio data on which at least one of recording start information and recording end information is recorded.