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Patent US7965616 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording and reproducing ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data to/from the recording medium are disclosed. The recording medium having a data structure for managing a data area of the recording medium includes at least one physical access control (PAC) cluster, the at least one PAC...http://www.google.com/patents/US7965616?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7965616 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data on/from recording mediumAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS7965616 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/085,134Publication dateJun 21, 2011Priority dateMar 23, 2004Fee statusPaidAlso published asEP1730741A2, EP1730741B1, US20050259560, WO2005089077A2, WO2005089077A3Publication number085134, 11085134, US 7965616 B2, US 7965616B2, US-B2-7965616, US7965616 B2, US7965616B2InventorsYong Cheol ParkOriginal AssigneeLg Electronics Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (64), Non-Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (2), Classifications (29), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetRecording medium, and method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data on/from recording medium
US 7965616 B2Abstract
A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data to/from the recording medium are disclosed. The recording medium having a data structure for managing a data area of the recording medium includes at least one physical access control (PAC) cluster, the at least one PAC cluster including information for managing logical overwriting to the recording medium, wherein each PAC cluster includes a PAC header, the PAC header being common to each PAC cluster, and a PAC specific information area, the area including information specific to each PAC cluster, wherein the PAC header includes segment information identifying at least one segment area in a user data area of the recording medium.
1. A recording medium having a data structure for managing a data area of the recording medium, the recording medium comprising:
a physical access control (PAC) cluster including information for managing logical overwriting to the recording medium, wherein the PAC cluster includes,
a PAC header common to each PAC cluster; and
a PAC specific information area including PAC information specific to each PAC cluster,
wherein the PAC header includes,
segment information identifying at least one segment area in a user data area of the recording medium, the number of the segment area identified by the segment information being less than or equal to a predetermined maximum number; and
an unknown PAC rules field defining a rule used without considering the PAC information of the corresponding PAC cluster when the PAC cluster is not known to an apparatus attempting to record to or reproduce from the recording medium, the unknown PAC rules field including a logical-overwrite field indicating whether logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium; and
a defect management area having at least one defect list entry, the defect list entry including first position information for indicating a position of a defective area within the user data area, second position information for indicating a position of a replacement area to be assigned to the defective area, first status information for indicating whether the defective area is replaced with the replacement area, and second status information for indicating single clusters and pluralities of consecutive clusters included in the defective area, each cluster including a plurality of sectors.
2. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the PAC header includes a PAC identification information (PAC ID) for identifying the corresponding PAC cluster.
3. The recording medium of claim 2, wherein the PAC identification information (PAC ID) is set to represent a “Logical Overwrite (LOW) PAC”.
4. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the PAC specific information area for each PAC cluster performs a specific function or application.
5. The recording medium of claim 4, wherein the specific function or application includes controlling access to areas of the recording medium.
6. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a write-once recording medium.
a backup PAC cluster including a copy of the PAC cluster.
8. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the unknown PAC rules field further includes an entire disc flag field indicating whether the rule is applicable to all of the segment area.
9. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the defect management area is included in a lead-in area of the recording medium.
10. A method for reading and recording data in a recording medium, the method comprising:
reading a physical access control (PAC) cluster and at least one defect list entry recorded on the recording medium, the PAC cluster including,
segment information identifying at least one segment area in a user data area of the recording medium, the number of the segment area identified by the segment information being less or equal to a predetermined maximum number;
an unknown PAC rules field defining a rule used without considering the PAC information of the corresponding PAC cluster when the PAC cluster is not known to an apparatus attempting to record to or reproduce from the recording medium, the unknown PAC rules field including a logical-overwrite field indicating whether logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium,
the defect list entry including first position information for indicating a position of a defective area within the user data area, second position information for indicating a position of a replacement area to be assigned to the defective area, first status information for indicating whether the defective area is replaced with the replacement area, and second status information for indicating single clusters and pluralities of consecutive clusters included in the defective area, each cluster including a plurality of sectors;
determining whether logical overwriting is allowed based on the logical-overwrite field;
recording data on the recording medium by performing logical overwriting on a pre-recorded area of the recording medium, if the logical-overwrite field indicates that logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the PAC cluster is recorded on at least one area within a lead-in area and a lead-out area of the recording medium.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the logical overwrite field is allocated with 1 bit so as to indicate whether logical overwriting is allowable or not.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the logical overwrite field is allocated with 2 bits so as to indicate whether physical overwriting and logical overwriting are allowable or not.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the unknown PAC rules field further includes an entire disc flag field indicating whether the rule is applicable to all of the segment area.
15. A method for recording physical access control (PAC) information of the recording medium, the method comprising:
verifying a PAC area within the lead-in area of the recording medium; and
recording a PAC cluster within the PAC area, the PAC cluster including;
an unknown PAC rules field defining a rule used without considering the PAC information of the corresponding PAC cluster when the PAC cluster is not known to an apparatus attempting to record to or reproduce from the recording medium, the rule including a logical-overwrite field indicating whether logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium; and
recording at least one defect list entry in a defect management area, the defect list entry including first position information for indicating a position of a defective area within the user data area, second position information for indicating a position of replacement area to be assigned to the defective area, first status information for indicating whether the defective area is replaced with the replacement area or not, and second status information for indicating single clusters and pluralities of consecutive clusters included in the defective area, the cluster including a plurality of sectors.
recording a backup PAC cluster including a copy of the PAC cluster in a backup area of the recording medium.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the unknown PAC rules field further includes an entire disc flag field indicating whether the rule is applicable to all of the segment area.
a controller configured to control the optical pickup to record a physical access control (PAC) cluster on the recording medium, wherein the PAC cluster includes:
wherein the PAC header includes:
an unknown PAC rules field defining a rule used without considering the PAC information of the corresponding PAC cluster when the PAC cluster is not known to an apparatus attempting to record to or reproduce from the recording medium, the rule including a logical-overwrite field indicating whether logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium,
wherein the controller is configured to control the optical pickup to further record at least one defect list entry in a defect management area, the defect list entry including first position information for indicating a position of a defective area within the user data area, second position information for indicating a position of replacement area to be assigned to the defective area, first status information for indicating whether the defective area is replaced with the replacement area or not, and second status information for indicating single clusters and pluralities of consecutive clusters included in the defective area, the cluster including a plurality of sectors.
19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the controller is configured to control the optical pickup to record the PAC cluster on an inner circumference of the recording medium.
20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the unknown PAC rules field further includes an entire disc flag field indicating whether the rule is applicable to all of the segment area. Description
This application claims the benefit of the Korean Application No. 10-2004-0039145, filed on May 31, 2004, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
This application claims the benefit of the U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/555,410, filed on Mar. 23, 2004, in the name of inventor Yong Cheol PARK, entitled “PAC usage Indicator in DDS”, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
The present invention relates to a high density optical disc, and more particularly, to a recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data to/from the recording medium, wherein physical access control (PAC) information is recorded.
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing data to/from the recording medium that substantially obviate one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
An object of the present invention is to provide an effective method of recording physical access control (PAC), which controls a logical overwrite (LOW) in a high density optical disc and, more specifically, in a write-once high density optical disc.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording and reproducing apparatus recording and managing data by using the PAC.
To achieve these objects and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, a recording medium having a data structure for managing a data area of the recording medium includes at least one physical access control (PAC) cluster, the at least one PAC cluster including information for managing logical overwriting to the recording medium, wherein each PAC cluster includes a PAC header, the PAC header being common to each PAC cluster, and a PAC specific information area, the area including information specific to each PAC cluster, wherein the PAC header includes segment information identifying at least one segment area in a user data area of the recording medium.
In another aspect of the present invention, a method for recording data in a recording medium includes reading at least one physical access control (PAC) cluster recorded in a predetermined area of the recording medium, the at least one PAC cluster including information for managing logical overwriting to the recording medium, and performing logical overwriting on a pre-recorded area of the recording medium, if the information indicating that logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium.
In another aspect of the present invention, in a recording medium allocated with a lead-in area, a data zone, and a lead-out area, a method for recording physical access control (PAC) information of the recording medium includes verifying a PAC area within the lead-in area of the recording medium, and recording a PAC cluster within the PAC area, the PAC cluster including information on whether logical overwriting is allowable for the recording medium.
In a further aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for recording and reproducing data on/from a recording medium includes a memory storing a physical access control (PAC) information within the recording medium, and a microcomputer verifying a PAC_ID among the PAC information and, when the verified PAC_ID cannot be identified, controlling logical overwriting in accordance with an Unknown PAC Rule and a Segment information recorded in the PAC.
FIG. 4 illustrates a PAC structure on the high density optical disc of an embodiment according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 illustrates segment zones on the high density optical disc according to the present invention;
FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate configurations of an “Unknown PAC Rules” field of an embodiment according to the present invention;
FIG. 7 illustrates a logical overwriting method of a write-once high density optical disc according to the present invention;
FIG. 8 illustrates a PAC structure on the high density optical disc of another embodiment according to the present invention;
FIGS. 9A and 9B illustrate configurations of an “Unknown PAC Rules” field of another embodiment according to the present invention;
FIG. 10 illustrates a block diagram of an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates PAC zones on a high density optical disc according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the high density optical disc is sectioned and designated as, from an inner circumference to an outer circumference, a lead-in zone, a data zone, and a lead-out zone. For simplicity, the PAC zone assigned to the INFO2 zone is referred to as a PAC2 zone, and the PAC zone assigned to the INFO1 zone is referred to as a PAC1 zone. One of the PAC2 zone and the PAC1 zone has an original PAC recorded thereon, and the other one is a back-up zone for recording a copy of the original PAC. In view of a direction of writing from the inner circumference to the outer circumference of the disc, it is preferable that the original PAC is recorded on the PAC2 zone, and the back-up PAC is recorded on the PAC1 zone. The PAC zone, provided for solving the problems liable to happen when an old version drive fails to detect functions on the disc added from a new version of drive, has an “unknown rule”.
In case of the write-once high density optical disc (BD-WO), the INFO2 zone has 256 clusters including a PAC2 zone, a DMA2 zone, a CD2 zone, and a BZ3 zone, each with 32 clusters, and the INFO1 zone has 256 clusters including a BZ2 zone, a DMA1 zone, a CD1 zone, and BZ1-PACI zone, each with 32 clusters, and 128 clusters of drive area. Moreover, in case of the read-only high density optical disc (BD-R), the INFO2 zone has 256 clusters including a PAC2 zone, a CD2 zone, and a BZ3 zone, each with 32 clusters, and the INFO1 zone has 256 clusters including a CD1 zone and BZ1-PACI zone, each with 32 clusters. Thus, the PAC zones of the present invention are assigned to the INFO2 zone and the INFO1 zone in the lead-in zone by 32 clusters respectively according to rewritable characteristics of the high density optical disc. In the PAC zone of 32 clusters, one PAC has one cluster. A structure in which one PAC is recorded at a size of one cluster will be described with reference to FIG. 3.
A detailed structure of the PAC recorded in above structure will be described with reference to FIG. 4. For simplicity, in the description of the present invention, particular fields of the PAC that require more detailed description will refer to drawings that illustrate the fields. FIG. 4 illustrates a structure of a PAC on the high density optical disc of an embodiment according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, as described above, the PAC includes a header portion applicable to all PACs (i.e., Common Header for all PACs), and an area having specific information (i.e., PAC Specific Information) specific to the drive recorded thereon.
In turn, the header portion includes 4 bytes of “PAC_ID”, 4 bytes of “Unknown PAC Rules”, 1 byte of “Entire Disc Flag”, 1 byte of “Number of Segments”, and 32 segments “Segment_0˜Segment_31” each with 8 bytes. The “PAC_ID” is a field for providing the present PAC status and identification codes, wherein if the “PAC_ID” has ‘00 00 00 00’ bits, the “PAC_ID” indicates that the present PAC is not used, if the “PAC_ID” has ‘FF FF FF FE’ bits, the “PAC_ID” indicates that the present PAC zone is not available for use due to reasons of defects or the like, and if the “PAC_ID” has ‘FF FF FF FF’ bits, the “PAC_ID” indicates that the present PAC zone is available for use again even if the PAC zone is used in the past.
Moreover, by recording the “PAC_ID” in bits agreed beforehand, such as ‘54 53 54 00’ bits, the “PAC_ID” is used as a code for determining if the disc is one that the present drive can make free access. More specifically, if the present drive does not know the “PAC_ID” applied thus, determining that this is a case when the present drive cannot understand the present PAC under a reason of version mismatch, or the like, the ‘54 53 54 00’ bits are used as a code requiring reference to information recorded on the “Unknown PAC Rules” field.
The segment will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 5 illustrates segment zones on the high density optical disc according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, if required, there can be maximum 32 segment areas on the high density optical disc of the present invention, for applying the PAC thereto starting from “Segment_0” in succession. In this case, by writing the first PSN which indicates a starting position of the allocated segment area, and the last PSN which indicates the last position of the allocated segment area on “Segment” fields of PAC2 and PAC1 zones, the optical disc drive is made to know positions of the segment areas. None of the plurality of allocated segments overlap, and the starting and last positions are designated at boundaries of the clusters.
As described above, the “Unknown PAC Rules” field is used as a field that designates an operation range of the drive that cannot understand the present PAC, which will be described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B. FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate configurations of an “Unknown PAC Rules” field of an embodiment according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6A, by using the “Unknown PAC Rules” field, a plurality of areas within the optical disc can be determined whether the areas can be controlled or not. Herein, the “Area” within the table represents a controllable area within the optical disc. The “Control” area shows the controlled status of reading/writing (or recording/reproducing), and the “Number of bits” represents the number of bits required for the control. Moreover, the bits added to the “Number of bits” shows that the optical disc is a dual-layer optical disc having two recording/reproducing sides.
For example, a “PAC zones 1, 2” field may indicate that reading and writing can be controlled in the entire PAC zone. A “DMA zones 1, 2” field may indicate that writing can be controlled in the defect management area. Moreover, a “Replacement Clusters” field may indicate that writing for a replacement area in the defect area can be controlled. Furthermore, a “Data Zone” field may indicate that reading and writing can be controlled in the data zone, and a “Logical Overwrite” field may indicate that logical overwriting can be controlled. Evidently, the control of writing may be applied to a physically recordable high density optical disc (BD-RE, BD-R). And, similarly, the control of writing in a replacement area of the defect area may be applied to a physically recordable high density optical disc (BD-RE, BD-R). Accordingly, it is apparent that the description of the present invention should be understood in accordance with the recording (or writing) characteristics of the high density optical disc.
By using the above-described method, the “Unknown PAC Rules” field can be used to enable a controllable area to be designated on the optical disc when using a drive of a mismatching version. In addition, the application of the above-described method is not limited only to the drive of a mismatching drive and can also be used for controlling access (i.e., controlling recording/reproducing or controlling writing/reading, both terminology are used in the description of the present invention) of a specific area in a physical area on the optical disc in accordance with the selection of the user. Accordingly, among the control of access for a plurality of allocatable areas on the disc, methods for controlling logical overwriting and controlling access of a logically overwritten area within the write-once high density optical disc will now be described in detail. The method for controlling logical overwriting will first be described, and the descriptions of the method for controlling access of the logically overwritten area and a method for controlling logical overwriting by using a “Logical Overwrite” field will then follow. (Descriptions will be made will be made with reference to FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 7 whenever required.)
FIG. 7 illustrates a logical overwriting method of a write-once high density optical disc according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 7, the write-once high density optical disc is allocated with a lead-in zone, an inner spare area (ISA), an outer spare area (OSA), and a lead-out zone. In the above-described write-once optical disc (BD-WO), the record management information according to the recording of data may be updated several times, as requested, during the usage of the optical disc. Therefore, the lead-in area of the optical disc includes a temporary disc management area (TDMA), wherein management information of the optical disc that can be updated several times is recorded. The TDMA is recorded in a temporary defect list (TDFL). The TDFL includes a list of defects consisting of a plurality of defect list (DFL) entries, wherein management information such as position information of actual defect areas or overwritten areas is recorded.
In the optical disc having the above-described structure, when an original recorded data area exists within the data zone, the corresponding area cannot be physically overwritten (i.e., overwriting is not allowable) due to the characteristics of the write-once optical disc. However, when a writing command requesting writing to be performed in area a-b (i.e., the original data recorded area) in accordance with a user request, a method of replacement recording the data in another area within the data zone is applied. Therefore, a host may give (or make) a writing command regardless of an original recording of data on a specific area within the disc. Thus, a user may use the write-once optical disc as a re-writable optical disc. This is differentiated from the physical overwriting and will be referred to as a logical over-write (LOW) method.
More specifically, when performing writing in area a-b, as shown in FIG. 7, since area a-b is a recording completed area (or an original data recorded area), data cannot be overwritten in the corresponding area (i.e., area a-b). However, in this case, the data is replacement recorded in a spare area (i.e., area c-d) within the data zone. And so, the corresponding management information is recorded as a TDFL information within the TDMA of the optical disc, thereby completing the writing process. In this case, the necessary overwriting management information is treated identically as a consecutive re-allocation defect (CRD) type. In other words, the physically recording completed area a-b is considered to be a defect area, and the data that is to be recorded in the defect area a-b is replacement recorded in a spare area.
In case of the CRD type, the management information that is recorded in the TDMA can be expressed (or described) by using two DFL entries. As shown in FIG. 7, information on replacement recording is recorded in a “status 1” field for one of the two entries as a type information for each entry. (For example, ‘0000’ represents a DFL entry of a Re-Allocation Defect (RAD) type or a Consecutive Re-allocation Defect (CRD) type, wherein replacement recording is normally completed. And, ‘0001’ represents a DFL entry of a Non-Reallocatable Defect (NRD) type, wherein a replacement area is not designated even though the corresponding area is a defect area.) A position information of a cluster having a defect is recorded in a “Defective Cluster first PSN” field. Herein, the position information is recorded as a first physical sector number (PSN) of the corresponding cluster.
In a “status 2” field, just as in the “status 1” field, information on each DFL entry type and characteristic is recorded. (For example, ‘0000’ represents when a defect occurs in one cluster, ‘0001’ represents a start (or beginning) of a plurality of consecutive defective clusters, and ‘0010’ represents an end of the plurality of consecutive defective clusters.) In addition, a position information of an area in which a defect area is replacement recorded in a spare area is recorded in a “Replacement Cluster first PSN” field. Herein, the position information is recorded as a first physical sector number (PSN) of the corresponding cluster. Furthermore, by using the other entry, type information for each DFL entry is expressed (or described or written) in “status 1” and “status 2” fields. (Most particularly, a ‘0010’ bit indicating an end of a plurality of consecutive defective clusters and replacement clusters is recorded in the “status 2” field.) A first physical sector number (PSN) of a last cluster among the position information of a cluster having a defect is recorded in a “Defective Cluster first PSN” field. And, a first PSN of a last cluster among the position information of a replacement recorded area within a spare area of the defect area is recorded in “Replacement Cluster first PSN” field.
In an example of the method for logical overwriting by using an entry format according to the present invention having the above-described structure will now be described with reference to FIG. 7. ‘0000’ representing that overwriting has been performed is recorded in the “status 1” field of a first DFL entry (DFL entry 1), and ‘a’ which is the first PSN of a defective cluster is recorded in the “Defective Cluster first PSN” field. Moreover, ‘0001’ representing a start (or beginning) of consecutive defective clusters is recorded in the “status 2” field, and ‘c’ which is the first PSN of a replacement recorded position of the defect area replacement recorded within the spare area is recorded in the “Replacement Cluster first PSN”.
Furthermore, ‘0000’ representing that replacement recording is completed is recorded in the “status 1” field of a second DFL entry (DFL entry 2), and ‘b’ which is the first PSN of a last cluster among the defective clusters is recorded in the “Defective Cluster first PSN field”. Moreover, ‘0010’ representing an end of the consecutive defective clusters is recorded in the “status 2” field, and ‘d’ which is a first PSN of a last cluster of a replacement recorded position of the defect area replacement recorded within the spare area is recorded in the “Replacement Cluster first PSN” field. Therefore, in accordance with a user request that may be made in a later process, when a host requests reproduction of the area a-b, the area c-d is reproduced in replacement after referring to the above-described information recorded in the TDMA.
In the above-described logical overwriting method according to the present invention, it is apparent that the original recorded area is an area allocated as a segment area (e.g., segment 0). Therefore, when an overwritten area is allocated as a segment area, as described above, or when an unknown PAC rule for an entire disc area is applied, although the data that is to be physically recorded in area a-b is replacement recorded in area c-d, the host identifies the data as being overwritten in area a-b. Therefore, area c-d is defined to be treated identically as the contents of access control, which is controlled by the PAC applied to the segment 0 area. (Herein, area a-b wherein data is recorded is referred to as an area for logical overwriting, and area c-d is referred to as a logically overwritten area for simplicity of the description.)
More specifically, for example, when a current drive is unaware of the identified PAC_ID, such as when a disc having data recorded from a higher drive version is loaded in a lower drive version, a segment area (or the entire disc), which is an area on the disc having the unknown PAC rule applied thereto, includes the logically overwritten area. Therefore, even though the logically overwritten data is physically recorded in a separate spare area other than the segment area, the logically overwritten area is treated identically as the contents of access control, which is controlled by the unknown PAC rule of the corresponding segment area.
Meanwhile, according to the present invention, when using a mismatching version drive, the information limiting the logical overwriting is defined in the unknown PAC rule of the PAC, which will now be described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B. First of all, referring to FIG. 6A, the information limiting the logical overwriting is recorded by using the “Logical Overwrite” field. Accordingly, by allocating 1 bit in the “Logical Overwrite” field, bit ‘1’ represents that logical overwriting is allowable in an original recorded area on the disc, and bit ‘0’ represents that logical overwriting is not allowable in an original recorded area. Therefore, when the current drive cannot identify the PAC_ID of the inserted optical disc, the logical overwriting is controlled by referring to the bit recorded in the “Logical Overwrite” field of the unknown PAC rule.
FIG. 6B illustrates an example of two bits being allocated for the “Logical Overwrite” field. Referring to FIG. 6B, two bits are allocated in the “Logical Overwrite” field. Bit ‘00’ represents that physical overwriting is allowable, and bit ‘01’ indicates that logical overwriting is allowable in the original recorded area on the optical disc. Moreover, bit ‘10’ represents that logical overwriting is not allowable in the original recorded area on the optical disc, and bit ‘11’ is left as a reserved bit for future usage. More specifically, apart from the overwriting in the write-once high density optical disc, the example of FIG. 6B has also taken into account the physical overwriting in a re-writable high density optical disc (BD-RE).
FIG. 8 illustrates a PAC structure on the high density optical disc of another embodiment according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 8, the PAC structure of another embodiment of the present invention includes a common header part and a specific information area of a specific drive. Herein, the common header part includes 4 bytes of a “PAC_ID” field, 2 bytes of a “Unknown PAC Rules” field, 1 byte of a “PAC Header Tag” field, 1 byte of an “Entire_disc_flag” field, 2 bytes of a “Byte address for the Main Set of Segments” field, 2 bytes of a “Number of Segments defined in the Main Set (N_M_Segs)” field, 2 bytes of a “Byte address for the Additional Set of Segments” field, and 2 bytes of a “Number of Segments defined in the Additional Set (N_A_Segs)” field. Furthermore, the specific information area of the specific drive includes an “Unused Part in the specific PAC” field.
In the above-described PAC structure, 2 bytes are allocated for the “Unknown PAC Rules” field, and a Main segment set and an Additional segment set are included. More specifically, the Additional segment set is reserved for when more segment areas are to be additionally allocated in addition to the 32 segments areas. For this, the number of main segments defined by the “Number of Segments defined in the Main Set (N_M_Segs)” field is recorded, and its starting position is recorded in the “Byte address for the main Set of Segments” field. In other words, the information recorded in the “Byte address for the main Set of Segments” field acts as a pointer of the defined main segment area. Moreover, the number of additional segments defined by the “Number of Segments defined in the Additional Set (N_A_Segs)” field is recorded, and its starting position is recorded in the “Byte address for the Additional Set of Segments” field. In a PAC area recorded in the size of one cluster, the additional segment area includes an unused part in the specific PAC, which is allocated in the N_A_Segs area. When using the above-described PAC structure, the additional segment areas may also be managed, as requested, in addition to the 32 segment areas.
As described above, the 2 bytes of the “Unknown PAC Rules” field is used as a field designating the operation range of the drive that cannot understand the current PAC, which will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 9A and 9B. More specifically, FIGS. 9A and 9B illustrate configurations of an “Unknown PAC Rules” field of another embodiment according to the present invention. First of all, referring to FIG. 9A, the “Unknown PAC Rules” field indicates detailed contents of controlling reading/writing on the PAC area by using 1 bit, controlling reading/overwriting on the PAC area by using 1 bit, and controlling logical overwriting according to the present invention by using 1 bit.
More specifically, 1 bit is allocated for the logical overwriting, and bit ‘1’ indicates that logical overwriting is allowable, and bit ‘0’ represents that logical overwriting is not allowable. Furthermore, referring to FIG. 9B, the “Unknown PAC Rules” field is allocated with 2 bits for the “Logical Overwrite” field. Herein, bit ‘00’ represents that physical overwrite is allowable, and bit ‘01’ indicates that logical overwriting is allowable. Moreover, bit ‘10’ represents that logical overwriting is not allowable, and bit ‘11’ indicates a reserved bit reserved for future usage. The above-described example also applies to the re-writable high density optical disc (BD-RE).
FIG. 10 illustrates a block diagram of an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 10, the optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a recording/reproducing device 10 for performing recording/reproduction on the optical disc, and a host, or controller 20 for controlling the recording/reproducing device 10. (Herein, the recording/reproducing device 10 is often referred to as an “optical disc drive”, and both terms will be used in the description of the present invention).
Then, the microcomputer 16 in the recording/reproducing device 10 receives the writing order, determines if the area of the optical disc in which the host 20 desires to write is a defective area or not from the management information stored in the memory 15, and performs data writing according to the writing order from the host 20 on an area which is not the defective area. In this case, if it is determined that the writing on an entire disc or on the particular area includes new features which a related art recording/reproducing device is not provided with, leading the related art recording/reproducing device to fail to sense, or if it is intended to restrict functions, such as writing or reproducing to/from the particular area of the disc according to requirements requested by the user, the microcomputer 16 of the recording/reproducing device 10 writes control information of the area on the PAC zone on the disc as “Unknown PAC rule”.
At this point, when the PAC recorded as described above is the control information for the entire disc area, the “Entire Disc Flag” field is recorded. And, when at least one segment area, which is a constant area within the disc, is allocated so as to control the access of the entire area, the number of allocated segment areas is recorded in the “Number of Segment” field, and control information as to whether access is allowed is recorded in the “Data Zone” field of the “Unknown PAC Rules” field. Moreover, when individual control is to be made for each of the segment areas, the contents of control and position information of the corresponding segment area is recorded in the “Segment” field. More specifically, when the host 20 wishes to record the contents of controlling the logical overwriting for the mismatching drive version, the corresponding contents of control is recorded in the “Logical Overwrite” field of the “Unknown PAC Rules” field. Herein, the PAC is recorded in the INFO2 zone of the PAC2 zone in the size of one cluster, and the PAC and the copy version of the PAC (or Copy PAC) is recorded in the INFO1 zone of the PAC1 zone for backup usage.
Accordingly, the microcomputer 16 provides position information of the area the data is written thereon, or the PAC zone, and the data to the servo unit 14 and the data processor 13, so that the writing is finished at a desired position on the optical disc through the pickup unit 11. Meanwhile, a method for recording and/or reproducing the high density optical disc having the PAC information written by above method will be described. Upon inserting an optical disc into the optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus, all management information is read from the optical disc, and stored in the memory of the recording and reproducing device 15, for use at the time of recording and reproduction of the optical disc. The information in the memory 10 includes position information of various zones inclusive of the PAC zone on the disc. Then, a PAC_ID field of the PAC is examined, for verifying if the PAC_ID of the PAC of the PAC zone is a sensible PAC_ID. As a result of the verification, if the written PAC_ID is sensible, determining that it is a case when the recording and reproducing device having written the data on the disc has a version identical to a version of the present recording and reproducing device, or a case when there is no separate writing/reproduction restrictions, the recording/reproduction is performed according to the order from the host 20.
When the sensing of a code written on the PAC_ID fails, determining that it is a case when there are restrictions due to reasons, such as the recording and reproducing device having written the data on the disc has a version different from a version of the present recording and reproducing device, the recording/reproduction is preformed according to the order from the host with reference to recording/reproduction restriction areas on the disc written on the “Unknown PAC rule” and “Segment”. In this case, control operations are performed on the logical overwriting and the area in which data is logically overwritten. For this, the microcomputer 16 provides the position information and data according to the order of the host to the servo unit 14 and the data-processor 13, so that the recording/reproduction is finished at a desired position on the optical disc through the pickup unit 11.
The method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data to/from the recording medium have the following advantages. The definition of an accessible area of a disc of a related art version drive by using PACs permits robust protection of a data area having a user data recorded thereon, to cut off improper external access from a hacker or the like. Also, the PAC which manages entire data zone or the segment areas on the disc permits effective data recording and reproducing to/from the high density optical disc. Finally, by proposing a method for controlling logical overwriting and a method for controlling access of the logical overwriting area, the high density optical disc can effectively record and reproduce the data.
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