Patent ID: 8139466

Claim:
A recording/reproducing device comprising within a single casing a plurality of recording/reproducing sections for performing writing and/or reading of data with respect to storage mediums, at least a first recording/reproducing section and a second recording/reproducing section of the plurality of recording/reproducing sections having individual insertion/ejection slots, the second recording/reproducing section performs writing and/or reading of data with respect to a disc using a blue light source whose wavelength is in the 400 nm band, the recording/reproducing device including a first display section for notifying an operating state of the first recording/reproducing section and a second display section for notifying an operating state of the second recording/reproducing section, the first display section and the second display section being provided on one of the external faces of the casing, opposed to an insertion/ejection slot of the first recording/reproducing section and an insertion/ejection slot of the second recording/reproducing section, respectively, wherein a third display section for notifying an operating state of the recording/reproducing device including display of information of recording/reproducing of the disc by the second recording/reproducing section, the third display section is provided between the first display section and the second display section, wherein the plurality of recording/reproducing sections include a third recording/reproducing section which differs from the first or second recording/reproducing section, the third display section functions also to notify an operating state of the third recording/reproducing section, wherein the third recording/reproducing section is a hard disk device, wherein the second recording/reproducing section being more distant from the hard disk device than the first recording/reproducing section.