Patent ID: 6714498
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on an information medium, the information recording/reproducing apparatus comprising,receiver for receiving a command for unloading the information medium to the outside, wherein the information recording/reproducing apparatus determines whether the information medium is to be unloaded, and evaluator for judging whether unloading of the information medium is allowed, wherein only when judging that unloading of the information medium is allowed, the information recording/reproducing apparatus allows the information medium to be unloaded, and when judging that the unloading of the information medium is not allowed, the information recording/reproducing apparatus rejects the unloading of the information medium, wherein when the information medium requested to be unloaded is a recordable medium, the evaluator judges that the unloading of the information medium is not allowed, and when the information medium requested to be unloaded is a medium used exclusively for reproduction, the evaluator judges that the unloading of the information medium is allowed.