Patent ID: 7609942

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording data managed as files onto a recording medium, comprising: generator means for generating a marker that contains a recognition pattern set beforehand for each of segment files in which at least one of the files is segmented, and salvage processing information that is used in a salvage process of a file that is recorded on the recording medium but in an unrecognizable state as a file, and recording means for recording the segment file and the marker onto the recording medium so that the segment file and the marker are arranged on the recording medium in a predetermined order, wherein the salvage processing information contains information indicating a planned recording position, on the recording medium, of a following marker that is recorded on the recording medium in succession to the marker containing the salvage processing information, wherein, when a defect takes place at the planned recording position, the following marker is shifted to an actual recording position rightward to the planned recording position.