Patent ID: 7957236

Claim:
Device for recording information in blocks having logical addresses, which device comprises recording means ( 22 ) for recording marks in a track on a record carrier representing the information, and control means ( 20 ) for controlling the recording by locating each block at a physical address in the track, the control means comprising addressing means ( 31 ) for translating the logical addresses into the physical addresses and vice versa in dependence on defect management information, defect management means ( 32 ) for maintaining the defect management information in defect managements areas, the defect management information including remapping information indicative for translating a logical address initially mapped to a physical address exhibiting a defect to an alternate physical address in a defect management area, continuous data detection means ( 33 ) for detecting a logically continuous address range of blocks of information, in particular real-time data like digitally encoded video, and defect management reorganizing means ( 34 ) for determining, via the defect management information, the physical addresses of remapped logical addresses in the logically continuous address range, and reorganizing the defect management information by remapping at least one of the remapped logical addresses to a different physical address for facilitating read-out of the remapped logical addresses in the logically continuous address range from a single defect management area.