Patent ID: 6625627
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A recording apparatus for recording data of a file in a parallel manner in a recording medium having a plurality of recording medium chips by managing a recording area in said recording medium on a block basis, comprising:parallel block forming means for forming at least one parallel block constituted by at least one block, for enabling the data of said file to be recorded in units of the parallel block in the parallel manner; record controlling means for recording the data of said file in units of the parallel block in the parallel manner, wherein each block in the parallel block is recorded on one of the medium chips, wherein blocks in the parallel block are on separate medium chips, and wherein each block in the parallel block is recorded in parallel with the other predetermined blocks in the parallel block on other medium chips; block link management storing means for storing block link management information concerning said parallel block in which the data of said file is recorded, and a block address of said parallel block is indicated in said block link management information with an unconstrained order for blocks of said parallel block; and computing means for computing position information concerning the position of the data of said file based on said block link management information.