Patent ID: 7477579

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording data on an optical disc, comprising: acquiring means which, from the optical disc, acquires optical-disc-state information including at least information of the type of the optical disc, information of a recording format, and information indicating whether or not the optical disc has already been finalized; first determining means which, based on the information of the type of the optical disc and the information of the recording format in the optical-disc-state information acquired by said acquiring means, determines whether or not the type of the optical disc and the recording format correspond to one of predetermined combinations; second determining means which, based on the result of determination by said first determining means and the optical-disc-state information acquired by said acquiring means, determines whether or not the optical disc needs to be finalized; and display control means which, when said second determining means determines that the optical disc needs to be finalized, controls display of a message representing the need of the finalization.