Abstract:
On a recording medium, physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, material information representing the material of the disc, is recorded. Accordingly, a recording apparatus and a reading apparatus easily and accurately determine the physical characteristics of the disc, thereby making it possible to provide suitable setting for performing an operation.
Abstract:
When a disc is reformatted with the disc remaining inserted and its disc type is changed, the disc cannot be controlled in compliance with the standards corresponding to the new disc type. The method comprises the steps of outputting information, which indicates that disc information cannot be read, from a DVD recorder (200) to an STB (100) which has the descriptor read right in response to a disc information read request from the STB (100), during the initialization of an interchangeable disc; and obtaining a disc descriptor identifier from the DVD recorder (200) when the STB (100) issues a request for the disc descriptor read right for the first time after the information which indicates that disc information cannot be read is output from the DVD recorder (200) to the STB (100).
Abstract:
When the kind of disk is changed by reformatting the disk inserted, a control cannot be made in accordance with the standard corresponding to the kind of the reformatted disk. There are provided an output step of outputting to an STB 100 the information indicating that reading the disk information is impossible when a DVD recorder 200 receives a read request of the disk information from the STB 100 having a read right of the descriptor during initialization of the replaceable disk, and an acquisition step of acquiring a descriptor identifier from the DVD recorder 200, when the STB 100 requests again the read right of the descriptor firstly after the DVD recorder 200 outputs to the STB 100 the information indicating that reading the disk information is impossible.
Abstract:
A rewritable optical disk is disclosed which is compatible with a read-only optical disk in which a read-only area has tracks divided into a plurality of first sectors, signals being pre-recorded in at least one of these first sectors under a predetermined reproduction format. The rewritable optical disc comprises a read-only area located in an inner portion in which read-only tracks are formed, and a rewritable area located in an outer portion in which rewritable tracks are formed. Each of the rewritable tracks is divided into second sectors, and the signal is recordable in the second sectors under a predetermined recording format which includes the predetermined reproduction format as a part thereof and further includes another part specific to the predetermined recording format.
Abstract:
On a recording medium, physical characteristic information of the recording medium, and more specifically, material information representing the material of the disc, is recorded. Accordingly, a recording apparatus and a reading apparatus easily and accurately determine the physical characteristics of the disc, thereby making it possible to provide suitable setting for performing an operation.
Abstract:
In a read-only area, each track is divided into sector regions having a same capacity. An error correction code is added to a first data signal to constitute a second data signal, which is recorded in each sector region by forming a pit array. In a rewritable area, user data to be recorded is made to correspond to the first data, to which the same error correction code as that in the read-only area is added, to constitute the second data signal as in the read-only area. A data signal for rendering the signal rewritable is added to the resultant signal, to constitute a third data signal. A header region representing address information of the sector is added to the region for recording the third data signal, to form a rewritable format. The optical disk is divided into two areas in the radial direction; the rewritable area on the outer circumference side and the read-only area on the inner circumference side. A control data signal is recorded in the read-only area.
Abstract:
An information recording/reproduction apparatus is provided which records and reproduces analog and digital information on and from a storage medium such as a magnetic tape (50). The apparatus is designed to discriminate between the analog information (5) and the digital information (10) in a reproduction mode of operation based on at least one of the level of a signal reproduced from the storage medium and a sub-code peculiar to the digital information.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a disk track emulation system and method, whereby, when a disk device is replaced by a new disk device having a disk track with a data format different from that of the active device, a program in an active host device can be used as it is, in the same way as in the active disk device, without reforming the program. To maintain the a compatibility, using the characteristic that the data format is divided by a unit called a cell having a constant number of bytes, and writing, into a home address area and a count area in the new data format, cell position data with the new data format, and compatible cell position data with respect to the active data format in which the compatibllity should be maintained.
Abstract:
A method and means is described wherein servo sectors written on a disk (or servo sections written on a tape) are equally spaced on a given track and read during seek, settle and track following operations. An algorithm is used to determine the allowable time separation between servo sectors (or sections) on a track and lengths of associated data sections, such as data sectors or variable length records, that may be accommodated on the disk or tape in such manner that each of the servo sectors (or sections) equally spaced on a given track is located within a data field of a data sector or within an identification region or immediately after an address indicating mark (such as address marker index mark). The rate at which the servo sector (or section) is sampled is constant and independent of the number and lengths of the data sections. As a result of this independent relationship, this technique is suitable for CLD recording, to banded disks using sectored servo as in conventional FBA, and also even to non-sectored architectures, such as count-key-data (CKD), wherein the data is written in records of variable length, and to tape drives formatted in FBA or CKD.