Patent ID: 7859965

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording device for recording data by irradiating laser light onto a disc-shaped recording medium; a driving device for performing tracking control and focus control, in the recording; a servo device for performing automatic control on said driving device, on the basis of an error signal in the at least one of the tracking control and the focus control; a specifying device for specifying an abnormal area by showing an angle from a standard position, in which a property of the recording medium is not good, on the basis of a high-frequency component included in the error signal in the tracking control and the focus control; and a controlling device for (i) controlling said servo device to change a control condition to a predetermined value in order not to perform a tracking process, in the automatic control; in addition to (ii) controlling said recording device to change a recording condition of the laser light, in the specified abnormal area.