Patent ID: 7898913

Claim:
A device for recording information organized in blocks at locations having physical addresses on a write-once record carrier, said locations having logical addresses in a user area, which device comprises recording means for recording marks in a track on the record carrier representing the information, and control means for controlling the recording by locating each location at a physical address in the track, the control means comprising addressing means for translating the logical addresses into the physical addresses and vice versa; allocation means for defining an ordered user area address range of the logical addresses for the user area, and for dividing the user area into a front area, a middle area and a rear area for sequentially recording information, by allocating to each of said areas a corresponding address range part of the user area address range, all address range parts being adjacent and separate; and re-allocation means for replacing the middle area by new areas, by allocating to each of said new areas a corresponding new address range part of the middle area address range part, one new address range part including addresses of all locations with recorded data within the middle area and all new address range parts being adjacent and separate.