Patent ID: 8009536

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus, comprising: a recording medium to record and reproduce data, an operating state display unit which displays an operating state of the recording medium, a failure diagnosis unit which carries out a failure diagnosis by using error information of the data reproduced from the recording medium, an output unit which outputs the data reproduced from the recording medium on a display unit, wherein the display unit is discrete from the operating state display unit, and at least one control unit to effect both of a function (a) and a function (b) wherein, after a predetermined operating mode of the apparatus is completed, one of the functions (a) and (b) selectively operates depending on a diagnostic result by the failure diagnosis unit, such that, in the function (a) the diagnostic result is displayed only on the operating state display unit amongst the operating state display unit and the display unit, and in the function (b), the diagnostic result is displayed on both of the operating state display unit and the display unit.