Patent ID: 7676140

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording medium having a data area with an address assigned to each cluster of a predetermined size; an interface unit for connection to a host apparatus; writing means for writing data supplied from said host apparatus via said interface unit in the data area of said recording medium; access order deciding means for dividing the data area of said recording medium into a plurality of areas each having an optional data capacity, and when data is to be written, deciding an order of accessing the plurality of divided areas from said writing means; timing deciding means for deciding a timing when file information on written data is to be updated, in accordance with the access order decided by said access order deciding means; control means for controlling said writing means when data supplied from the host apparatus via said interface unit is to be written in the data area of said recording medium, to access a plurality of divided areas in accordance with the access order decided by said access order deciding means, to search an empty cluster in the accessed area, and to write data in the searched empty cluster; and file information updating means for updating the file information on already written data in accordance with the timing decided by said timing deciding means.