Patent ID: 6937549

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data onto/from a recording medium having a recording area where a program can be recorded and a management area where management information for managing the program recorded in the recording area is recorded, comprising: recording means for recording an identifier that is peculiar to the recording medium into said management area and the program into said recording area upon recording; memory means for holding the identifier peculiar to said recording medium and information regarding the program which is recorded into said recording area in correspondence to each other; reproducing means for reproducing an identifier of said management area on the recording medium inserted after said recording medium was once ejected before the management information in said management area is updated; comparing means for comparing the identifier reproduced by said reproducing means with the identifier held in said memory means; control means for controlling said recording means so that the information regarding the program which is recorded into said memory means in correspondence to the identifier peculiar to said recording medium is recorded as said management information when it is decided by said comparing means that the identifier reproduced by said reproducing means and the identifier held in said memory means coincide; and display means for, when it is decided by said comparing means that the identifier reproduced by said reproducing means and the identifier held in said memory means coincide, displaying the information regarding the program which is recorded into said memory means in correspondence to the identifier peculiar to said recording medium.