Patent ID: 7730255

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording data in individual blocks each made of plural given regions on an optical disc, the recording apparatus comprising: a detection portion which detects a finally recorded region on the optical disc by detecting for each of the given regions as to whether or not data is recorded; and a recording control portion which determines whether the finally recorded region detected by the detection portion is a final region of a respective block and which causes dummy data and data to be recorded in accordance with a result thereof such that (i) the recording control portion causes dummy data to be recorded in a block next to the respective block including the finally recorded region and causes data to be recorded from a head region of a block further next to the block in which the dummy data has been recorded when the finally recorded region is the final region of the respective block, and (ii) the recording control portion causes dummy data to be recorded in an unrecorded region of the respective block including the finally recorded region and causes data to be recorded from a head region of a block next to the respective block including the finally recorded region when the finally recorded region is not the final region of the respective block.