Patent ID: 8665680

Claim:
A recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information to plural numbers of devices and for reproducing information from said plural numbers of devices, comprising: an external interface portion, which is configured to execute transmission between an external apparatus and the recording/reproducing apparatus; a virtual device controller portion, which is configured to notice a part of regions of said plural numbers of devices to said external interface portion as a virtual device; and a storage controller portion, which is configured to control transmission of information to said plural numbers of devices, wherein at least one device of said plural numbers of devices is an optical disc drive, wherein when an optical disc is inserted into the optical disc drive, information is coded from the optical disc drive to a first device, a part of region of the first device is treated as a second device, being the virtual device, and it is noticed to said external interface that said second device is connected with said recording/reproducing apparatus, when said copying is completed, wherein said external interface portion is in accordance with a serial ATA standard, and said storage controller portion executes control of a port multiplier function of the serial ATA standard, in such a manner that said virtual device controller portion is recognized as one of device ports of the port multiplier; and wherein plural numbers of the second devices are produced.