Patent ID: 7773471

Claim:
A recording apparatus electronically connected to a data buffer, the recording apparatus comprising: an interface circuit for receiving a command from a host; a microcontroller for generating control information based on the command; a control buffer for storing the control information; a data preparing unit having a control register and a preparing circuit, the control register values being used for storing a set of control register values, the set of control register being corresponding to the control information, the preparing circuit being used for generating prepared data based on the set of control register values, and the prepared data being stored in the data buffer; a buffer management unit for accessing the data buffer; and a recording circuit for receiving the prepared data from the buffer management unit and recording on an optical storage media; wherein the optical storage media has a lead-in area having a plurality of continuous zones, the prepared data includes a plurality of data to be written into the corresponding zones, the plurality of data are stored in the data buffer in the same sequence as the writing sequence to the zones and are read continuously.