Patent ID: 8634692

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a communication unit that communicates with an external device; and a control unit that (a) generates divided areas in a storage area of a storage medium, (b) determines which one of a first connection mode and a second connection mode is selected as a selected mode, (c) determines which one of the divided areas is selected as a selected area, (d) performs a process for exposing the selected area to the external device if the first connection mode is selected as the selected mode so that the external device can access to first file system information stored in a first area of the selected area, second file system information stored in a second area of the selected area, and data stored in a third area of the selected area, and (e) performs a process for exposing the selected area to the external device without exposing the first area including the first file system information to the external device if the second connection mode is selected as the selected mode so that the external device can access to the second file system information stored in the second area of the selected area and the data stored in the third area of the selected area, wherein the first file system information is used to access a file including both the second file system information stored in the second area of the selected area and the data stored in the third area of the selected area, and wherein the second file system information is used to access the data stored in the third area of the selected area.