Patent ID: 6906882

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a first recorder and reproducer to drive tape-like first storage medium for recording a signal on and reproducing the signal from the first storage medium, record at least one first indexing signal on the first storage medium or detect at least one second indexing signal already recorded on the first storage medium, and determine the location of the recorded first or second indexing signal as an indexing position; a second recorder and reproducer to record a signal on and reproduce the signal from a randomly accessible second storage medium; and a controller to control the second recorder and reproducer to record the signal that has been recorded on the first storage medium on the second storage medium from the indexing position for a specific period P, period P equaling (|L−2C|+L)/2V in which L is a length of the first storage medium, V is a fast forward/backward feeding speed for the first storage medium and C is the current location of the first storage medium from the head or the end of the tape-like first storage medium.