Patent ID: RE41429

Claim:
A method for controlling a recording apparatus to record a an applied information on one of a plurality of storage units of a record carrier, in which the record carrier is provided with a preformed servo track, and said servo track is preconditioned with a control-information pattern, the plurality of storage units being arranged along said servo track, said method comprising the steps of: (1) defining a plurality of recording stages based on an a number of errors occurred in a targeted storage unit, each recording stage being corresponding to a predetermined writing speed; (2) reading the control-information pattern from the targeted storage unit; (3) generating an error-count by calculating the number of errors that occurred in step (2); (4) adjusting the writing speed of the recording apparatus to record the applied information to the targeted storage unit, according to one of the plurality of recording stages corresponding to the error-count ; and (5) stop recording applied information on the targeted storage unit, if none of the plurality of recording stages being corresponding to the error-count .