Patent ID: 7260676

Claim:
An optical disc recording/reproducing method for using writing software to perform recording and reproduction in an optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus connected to a host computer according to instructions from said host computer, comprising: determining whether an optical disc loaded in said optical disc recording/reproduction apparatus is an optical disc onto which data is to be written; and performing acquisition of disc information for recording onto said optical disc by said host computer during a spinup when it is determined that the disc is an optical disc onto which data is to be written, wherein said optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus returns the disc information to said host computer, wherein when the acquisition of information concerning recording is performed during the spinup, error retries for (1) acquiring information for reproduction are counted, and error retries for (2) acquiring information for recording are separately counted, and the count (A) of error retries for (2) acquiring information for recording is set to a value less than that of the count (B) of error retries for (1) acquiring information for reproduction, and if count (A) is exceeded, the acquisition of the information concerning recording during the spinup is suspended, the remaining spinup is continued, and the information concerning recording is acquired before a response to a command for returning the information concerning recording is provided.