Patent ID: 7075862

Claim:
A recording apparatus for a write-once and/or re-recordable optical recording medium which has a recording position information section formed beforehand for bearing recording position information, and records a data signal including address information in accordance with recording frames indicated by said recording position information, the recording apparatus comprising: a discriminator for discriminating said recording position information; a detector for detecting a deviation between an end position address of recorded data already recorded on said optical recording medium and a frame address next to the end position address; a controller for adjusting a recording start position of the data signal based on the deviation while recording the data signal; and an identifier for identifying a rewritable optical recording medium on which data is to be recorded, and an irregular-area detector for detecting an irregular recording area which has the deviation, wherein the controller performs positional deviation correction of recording data by rewriting the data which has already recorded on the irregular recording area.