Patent ID: 7072570

Claim:
A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising: a turn table on which a disk storage unit for storing a disk shaped recording medium to be vertically placed is arranged in plurality in a circumferential direction; a disk drive unit disposed in a center hole provided at the center of the turn table, the disk drive unit mounting the recording medium to record and/or reproduce an information signal; disk carrying means for carrying the recording medium between the disk drive unit and the turn table; and control device for controlling the input and output of the turn table, the disk drive unit, and the disk carrying means, wherein the control device controls the turn table and disk carrying means so as to judge whether or not the recording medium is stored in the disk storage unit, judge an information recording face of the recording medium removed from the disk storage unit, and mount the recording medium intact on the disk drive unit or invert the recording medium based on the judgment result, thereby remounting the medium on the disk drive unit.