Patent ID: 7969841

Claim:
An apparatus for recording management information on a recording medium, the recording medium including one or more temporary defect management areas (TDMAs) being used in a designated order and a plurality of defect management areas (DMAs), the apparatus comprising: a pickup configured to record data onto the recording medium: and a microcomputer configured to control the pickup so as to record, onto a TDMA access indicator located in a first TDMA being used first among the one or more TDMAs, a temporary disc definition structure (TDDS) recorded first in a TDMA associated with the TDMA access indicator when the associated TDMA is in use, the TDDS including 00h at a position information field for indicating a position of a valid defect list; and the microcomputer configured to control the pickup to record onto a DMA access indicator located in the first TDMA indicating whether or not the recording medium is closed, a disc definition structure (DDS) recorded in one of the DMAs when closing the recording medium so as to indicate that the recording medium is closed, the DDS including a start address of a valid defect list within the DMA as position information.