Patent ID: 8098553

Claim:
A method of reproducing a write-once disc comprising a plurality of temporary defect management areas and at least one access information area, the method comprising: accessing the access information area and determining a final temporary defect management area in which a finally updated temporary disc management structure comprising a temporary defect list and a temporary disc definition structure is recorded among the plurality of temporary defect management areas on the basis of a number of recording blocks in which access information is recorded; obtaining location information of the final temporary defect management area from the access information recorded in at least one of the recording blocks; and obtaining the finally updated temporary disc management structure recorded in the final temporary defect management area; wherein the access information is updated in a case where a temporary defect management area in which the finally updated temporary disc management structure is recorded is changed; the access information is identical to one of a plurality of temporary disc definition structures recorded in the plurality of temporary defect management areas; and at least one of the temporary disc definition structures comprises information of size and location of one of the temporary defect management areas that are allocated to a data area of the write-once disc.