Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an information recording apparatus has a control unit configured to control mutual transfer of information between each of a disc-shaped recording medium, a cache memory, and a non-volatile memory and the outside, control mutual transfer of information between the disc-shaped recording medium, the cache memory, and the non-volatile memory, and control to set a substituting region corresponding to a defect region generated in the disc-shaped recording medium in the non-volatile memory.
Abstract:
The invention provides an information processing apparatus that includes: a card slot in which a card-type medium is inserted; and a data communication unit that performs data exchange with the card-type medium in an operation mode that is judged as the faster mode that offers a faster data exchange with the card-type medium, which is either a first operation mode or a second operation mode.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a flash memory and an SDRAM having higher information writing and reading speeds are provided as caches with respect to a hard disk. When a free space corresponding to a size of information to be written is not present in the SDRAM and forming in the SDRAM the free space corresponding to the size of the information is predicted, higher one of a speed of writing the information in the SDRAM and a speed of writing the information in the flash memory is determined, and the information is written in a memory having the higher speed.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus that loads a disc as a recording medium and performs a data recording process on the disc may include a display unit performing an information display process and a control unit displaying guide information including predetermined inquiry information for a user in the display unit and performing an analysis process for a user's input that is input through an input unit in response to the displayed guide information, wherein the control unit may be configured to determine a usage type of recording data for the disc on the basis of the user's input in response to the guide information displayed in the display unit and determine at least one of a disc type and an application format that is to be used for the recording process.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a data recording apparatus includes an input unit to which a commands is input, a disk-shaped recording medium, a nonvolatile memory which serves as a cache memory for the disk-shaped recording medium, and a control unit which records the data recorded in the nonvolatile memory onto the disk-shaped recording medium on the basis of a command to turn off a function of using the nonvolatile memory as a cache memory for the disk-shaped recording medium, which is input to the input unit.
Abstract:
A disk drive comprising a read channel including a decoder and an EP unit, and a disk controller including an error correction unit is disclosed. The EP unit generates error positional information showing an error position among data output from the decoder. The disk controller has an EP buffer memory accumulating the error positional information. The error correction unit executes error correction by using highly accurate error positional information from the EP buffer memory.
Abstract:
An information processing device has a data recording medium accessor, into which a data recording medium is inserted. The data recording medium has first and second operation modes. The information processing device accesses the data recording medium to execute an access type selected by a user in an operation mode having a faster communication speed. If the access to the data recording medium has failed and if the selected access type is a collective data exchange, the information processing device selects a fastest communication speed out of communication speeds at which there is a possibility that data is correctly exchanged in the first operation mode and the second operation mode, and accesses the data recoding medium again. If the access to the data recording medium has failed and if the selected access type is not a collective data exchange, the information processing device reduces the communication speed in the current operation mode, and accesses the data recording medium again.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, the device comprises an input part, a disc-shaped storage medium, a non-volatile memory which becomes a cache memory for the disc-shape storage medium, an acquisition part which acquires status information showing the status of the non-volatile memory, and a control part which outputs the status information acquired by the acquisition part based on a status request command input in the input part.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, there are provided an input unit which receives an input of command, a disk-shaped recording medium, a nonvolatile memory which serves as a cache memory for the disk-shaped recording medium, an acquisition unit which acquires status information denoting a status of the nonvolatile memory, and a control unit which judges a status of the nonvolatile memory on the basis of the status information acquired by the acquisition unit.