Patent ID: 7911894

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus to reproduce data from a disc including a user data area, a first spare area located in front of the user data area and allocated during initialization, and a second spare area located at the rear of the user data area and allocatable and/or expanded after initialization of the disc, the apparatus comprising: a pickup configured to read data from the disc; and a controller configured to control the pickup to read the data and to reproduce the read data from the disc using the second spare area, wherein an expanded second spare area is allocated in a forward direction toward the front of the user data area starting from a rear portion of the user data area, and a defect block, which is registered in a defect list and included in the expanded second spare area by the allocation of the user data area as the expanded second spare area, is not used as a spare block for replacing another defect block in the user data area, wherein the defect block is registered in the defect list prior to being included in the expanded second spare area.