Patent ID: 7734964

Claim:
An optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces data on and from an optical disc, the optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a recording control portion for storing, when a recording error occurs during recording of data on the optical disc, an error address and an error code indicating contents of the recording error in a nonvolatile memory and, after recording is stopped, writing the error address and the error code read from the nonvolatile memory to a predetermined area of the optical disc; and a reproduction control portion for reading, when reproducing the data from the optical disc which is recorded according to control of the recording control portion, the error address and the error code from the predetermined area and then storing the read error address and error code in the nonvolatile memory and, if an address of a recording error is found after reading of the data of the optical disc has started, reading the error address and the error code from the nonvolatile memory and then transferring the read error address and error code to a back-end processing portion to prevent data from being read from the address of the recording error.