Patent ID: 8484667

Claim:
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, comprising: a recording medium accommodation table including a plurality of recording medium accommodation portions each capable of accommodating a disk-like recording medium; a recording medium drive unit on which the disk-like recording medium is removably mounted and which is capable of performing recording and/or reproduction of an information signal onto and/or from the mounted disk-like recording medium; a mechanical chassis configured to support the recording medium accommodation table to freely rotate and also support the recording medium drive unit to be movable; a drive-moving unit configured to move the recording medium drive unit closer to and away from the recording medium accommodation table; and a recording medium transport unit configured to transport the disk-like recording medium between a recording medium mounting and removing position of a recording medium-mounting portion, at which the disk-like recording medium is mounted and removed on and from the recording medium drive unit, and a recording medium accommodation position of the recording medium accommodation portions, at which the disk-like recording medium is accommodated.