Patent ID: 8605565

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an optical disc drive; a data processing module configured to execute data processing using the optical disc drive; and a power supply management module configured to manage supply of power to the optical disc drive, wherein: the data processing module comprises: an interrogation module configured to interrogate the power supply management module about the optical disc drive at the time of activation; and a waiting module configured to wait until an operating system recognizes the optical disc drive when an instruction is received from the power supply management module in response to an interrogation by the interrogation module, the instruction instructing to wait until the operating system recognizes the optical disc drive, and the power supply management module comprises a controller configured to shift the optical disc drive to a power supply on state and to return the instruction to the data processing module, if the optical disc drive is in a power supply off state when the power supply management module receives the interrogation from the data processing module.