Patent ID: 8325572

Claim:
An optical disc recording apparatus having an optical disc drive and a host unit for controlling the optical disc drive, the optical disc drive comprising: storing means for storing data supplied from the host unit; recording means for sequentially reading data stored in the storing means and recording the stored data on the optical disc; and drive control means for erasing the data normally recorded on the optical disc from the storing means, detecting a recording error of data on the optical disc in parallel with the sequential reading of the data stored in the storing means and recording the stored data on the optical disc, and transmitting an address at which the recording error has occurred and a recording error occurrence notification to the host unit, in response to reception of the recording error occurrence notification, the host unit selects a predetermined range subsequent to the address at which the recording error has occurred as a skip area, and transmits a recording resume address for skipping the skip area to resume recording the data to the optical disc drive; and in response to reception of the recording resume address, the drive control means resumes recording the data stored in the storing means from the recording resume address of the optical disc, thereby avoiding a retransmission of data supplied from the host unit.