Patent ID: 7697379

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a load and eject unit for loading and ejecting a disk recording medium; a writing and reading unit for writing information data in the disk recording medium loaded by the load and eject unit and for reading information data from the disk recording medium, the writing and reading unit reading a management information from the disk recording medium and storing the read management information in a memory in accordance with a loading operation of the disk recording medium; an instruction receiving unit; and a control unit for controlling the writing and reading unit so as to perform an eject preparation operation including an operation for writing the management information stored in the memory in the disk recording medium and controlling the load and eject unit so as to eject the disk recording medium after completion of the eject preparation operation by the writing and reading unit in accordance with an eject instruction received by the instruction receiving unit, wherein the control unit controls the writing and reading unit, if an eject cancel instruction is received by the instruction receiving device during the eject preparation operation, so as to stop performing the eject preparation operation and stops an eject operation of the disk recording medium by the load and eject unit.