Patent ID: 8306385

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a drive section configured to drive a recording medium on which image data is recorded; a connection section configured to connect a data storage medium to the recording apparatus, said data storage medium being different from said recording medium; and a control section configured to mount and unmount said data storage medium while said data storage medium is connected to said connection section, said control section configured to: mount said data storage medium when said data storage medium is connected to said connection section, unmount said data storage medium without receiving a user input after reading out a part of data from said data storage medium, temporarily store image data to be stored on the data storage medium in a memory of the recording apparatus before the data storage medium is remounted, remount said data storage medium when a process of recording the image data on said recording medium starts, and store the image data on the data storage medium which was temporarily stored in the memory of the recording apparatus after the data storage medium is remounted.