Patent ID: 7800984

Claim:
A method for checking disk loading status in an optical disk driver having a plurality of optical sensors and a disk loading switch, comprising: receiving sensing signals respectively outputted from the plurality of optical sensors and from the disk loading switch for sensing whether an optical disk has been completely loaded in the optical disk driver; discriminating loading status of the optical disk during multiple loading stages of the optical disk on the basis of the sensing signals respectively outputted from the plurality of optical sensors and from the disk loading switch; transmitting information to a host connected through an interface to the optical disk driver when the optical disk has been jammed based on the discrimination; and performing a disk-ejection operation according to a disk ejection command received from the host, wherein when a combination of the sensing signals respectively outputted is not a value indicating a state that the optical disk is mounted and being maintained as such for more than a predetermined time, it is discriminated that the optical disk has been jammed in the optical disk driver.