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7391690 Apparatus to record data on a write once disc  
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation...
7391688 Method for managing defective area of optical recording medium  
A storage medium and method for managing a defective area of the storage medium are provided. The method includes (A) identifying a defective area found during recording or reproducing of data; (B)...
7385894 Method for determining defective blocks of optical disc  
In a method for determining defective blocks of an optical disc, a defect-detection procedure for each block of the optical disc is performed. After the defect-detection procedure, a preliminary...
7385890 Write-once-type recording medium with temporary defect managment area, recording apparatus and method for the same, and reproducing apparatus and method for the same  
A temporary defect management area 14 is placed between a control information recording area 12 and a data area 11 . Before a recording medium 10 is finalized, defect management information...
7382704 Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method  
A reproduction apparatus is provided for reproducing information recorded on an information recording medium. The information recording medium includes a data area for recording user data; and a...
7372788 Method for managing defective area on write-once optical recording medium, and optical recording medium using the same  
A method for managing a defective area of a write-once optical recording medium, and an optical recording medium using the same, is provided. In an optical disc device for recording/reproducing...
7366068 Method for recording data to a write once disc  
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, a method of managing the data area of the write once disc, an apparatus recording data on the write once disc, an apparatus and method of...
7366066 Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus, information recording medium, and program storage medium with overwrite protection features limiting the possible number of rewrites  
Congested rewriting in the same area is to be evaded to suppress the tendency towards occurrence of defective areas. When a stream 1 has been recorded, the last written address, representing the...
7362676 Method for defect management of an optical storage medium with a sorting process  
A method for recording a plurality of data sets onto an optical storage medium by utilizing a temporary storage device in an optical storage system includes storing a plurality of data sets...
7362675 Apparatus for recording data to and/or reproducing data from a write once disc  
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation...
7360014 Spare area management method of optical recording medium  
A recording medium and a spare area management method for an optical recording medium are provided. The recording medium includes a spare area including a first spare area and/or an extendable...
7355934 Optical disc of write once type, method, and apparatus for managing defect information on the optical disc  
An optical disc of write once type, a method and an apparatus of managing defect information on the optical disc of write once type, e.g., a BD-WO, are provided with a temporary defect management...
7339867 Defect-signal generating circuit and optical disk reproducing device having the same  
An optical disk reproducing device has a defect-signal generating circuit including a peak-holding-signal generating circuit for generating a peak-hold signal based on an RF signal read from a...
7330945 Recording medium, and method and apparatus for managing defective areas of recording medium  
A recording medium and a method and apparatus for managing defective areas of the recording medium are provided. The method includes allocating, in a data recording direction, a spare area of a...
7330412 Method and apparatus for searching for recordable area, and method and apparatus for testing recorded area arrangement  
A method for searching for at least one recordable area in which real time data can be recorded from at least one empty area included in an information recording medium includes a first step of...
7330409 Disc with temporary defect management area, and disc defect management method and apparatus therefor  
A write once disc with at least one record layer includes a temporary defect management area in which temporary defect information regarding only defect detected during a corresponding recording...
7327655 Write once disc, disc drive therefor, and method of managing disc defect considering compatibility with rewritable disc drive  
A write once disc, a disc drive therefor, and a method of managing disc defects on the write once disc using the disc drive in consideration of the compatibility of the write once disc with a...
7315496 Memory manage method for defect management of an optical disk  
A method for accessing data of an optical disk with a disk drive. The drive includes a memory; the optical disk has a plurality of data blocks for recording data and a plurality of spare blocks for...
7313066 Write once disc allowing management of data area, method of managing the data area, and method for reproducing data from write once disc  
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, a method of managing the data area of the write once disc, an apparatus recording data on the write once disc, an apparatus and method of...
7304921 Recording control device, recording control method, program and recording system  
To provide a recording control device able to control a data recording so as not to use a defective sector free from a sector test before a shipment thereof, which controls a data recording with...
7289404 Write-once recording medium and defective area management method and apparatus for write-once recording medium  
A method of managing defects on a write-once optical recording medium having at least one recording layer is disclosed. The method of managing defects on the at least one recording layer comprises...
7283442 Method for choosing the defect detection mode of an optical storage device  
At least one detection area on an optical storage medium is allocated for data storage first, and then the detection area is set to a defect detection mode of either write detection or write...
7274639 Disk drive performing multi-level prioritization of entries in a suspect sector list to identify and relocate defective data sectors  
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk having a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data sectors, and a head is actuated over the disk. A suspect sector...
7274634 Information recording medium capable of defect management, information recording apparatus capable of defect management, and information playback apparatus for playing back information from defect-managed medium  
An information recording medium according to an aspect of this invention includes a data area (A 2 ) for recording user data and an address area (DMA address area) for recording address data that...
7266736 Recording medium having spare area for defect management and information on defect management, and method of allocating spare area and method of managing defects  
A recording medium having a spare area for defect management and the management information of the spare area, a spare area allocation method, and a defect management method. When a primary spare...
7260039 High-density multi-layer optical disc, method for recording data thereon on layer-by-layer basis, and method for managing spare areas thereof  
A high-density multi-layer optical disc, a method for recording data thereon on a layer-by-layer basis, and a method for managing spare areas thereof. In a high-density multi-layer optical disc,...
7257068 Apparatus and method for reproducing replacement data recorded on a disc  
An apparatus and method are provided for reproducing replacement data recorded in a spare area of a disc, such as a DVD-RAM. The replacement data is temporarily stored in a memory provided in a...
7257064 Recording/reproducing apparatus which records/reproduces data with respect to multi-layer information storage medium having optical power control areas  
An information storage medium having a plurality of information storage layers, each of which includes an optimal power control (OPC) area for obtaining an optimal recording condition, wherein OPC...
7257057 Information recording apparatus and information recording method  
An information recording medium is provided that includes a data area for recording user data and a defect management area for recording a defect list for managing N number of defect areas existing...
7230893 Method of formatting optical recording medium  
A method of formatting a rewritable optical recording medium includes registering defective blocks in a primary defect lists (PDL) and performing a slipping replacement corresponding to the number...
7221631 Method for recording data on optical recording medium  
A method for recording data on an optical recording medium includes the step of receiving data to be written and control data. The control data includes status information to indicate whether or...
7209418 Method for replacing defective block with good block to record data in optical disc apparatus  
A method for replacing a defective block with a good block in an optical disk allows data recording operations to be effectively performed. The method temporarily stores data that would have...
7184377 Multi-layered information recording medium, recording apparatus, and recording method  
A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a...
7161883 Information recording method and optical disk apparatus  
When user data is recorded on a write-once medium, linking variations can be reduced that are produced as management information for managing the user data is updated by additionally recording on...
7155640 HDD defect list searching method  
A hard disk drive (HDD) defect list searching method includes checking whether a target track is on a non-defective track list when a command to access the target track is applied, obtaining defect...
7146522 System and method for allocating spare disks in networked storage  
A system and method for a file server to allocate spare disks in a network storage system. The method determines the available spare disks and first selects those disks that satisfy one or more...
7145840 Methods for optical disc sector verification  
A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the...
7133339 Data storage apparatus that either certifies a recording medium in the background or verifies data written in the recording medium  
A data storage apparatus, which can format a recording medium in the background, that verifies data written in a designated region of the recording medium if the designated region has not yet been...
7133333 Recording medium for storing defect management information for recording real time data, defect managing method therefor, and real time data recording method  
A recording medium for storing defect management information to record real time data, a defect managing method therefor, and a method of recording real time data. The recording medium stores...
7116614 Apparatus for assigning spare areas for defect management and apparatus for handling fragmented ECC blocks  
A recording medium having a spare area for defect management, and a method and apparatus for allocating and assigning the spare area. A plurality of zones are formed as one group without...
7114024 Apparatus and method for managing memory defects  
A method and apparatus for managing defects in a memory, wherein the method includes the steps of testing a plurality of memory locations to determine an inoperable memory location and moving a...
7102972 Method of recording drive information on optical disc and optical disc having drive information recorded using the method  
A method of recording drive information on an optical disc and an optical disc having drive information recorded using the method. The method of recording drive information comprises including a...
7092334 Method of detecting a defect area of a disk  
The present invention relates to a method of detecting a defect area without any mistake during data recording on a writable disk. This method detects a level of a servo error signal produced...
7092333 Device and program for checking optical disks  
A plurality of tracks on an optical disk are optically read to obtain a signal containing a plurality of LOW segments. Each of the plurality of LOW segments should correspond to a certification...
7088657 Optical media integrity detection  
An optical media drive contains light reflective surfaces positioned about a transparent center portion of the optical media. The light reflective surfaces reflect laser light from a laser unit of...
7073091 Method and system for updating mapping flag in optical recording medium  
This invention is for updating a straight mapping flag in an optical recording medium having defect table blocks (DTBs) in a detect table (DT). When data that should be recorded in a predetermined...
7065019 Method for recording data on optical recording medium  
A method for recording data on an optical recording medium includes the step of receiving data to be written and control data. The control data includes status information to indicate whether or...
7055013 Spare data site allocation  
A method of allocating data sites of a storage device based on quality of the data sites, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, includes determining the quality of the data sites...
7050369 Method of combining newly established entries with original entries for updating a defect table when an optical disc drive stops writing data into an optical disc  
A method for managing data on an optical discincludes two different memory areas allocated in the memory of an optical disc drive, one is used to temporarily store an original defect table from the...
7047438 Accommodation of media defect growth on a data storage medium through dynamic remapping  
An apparatus, program product and method of mapping defects on a data storage medium analyze one or more previously-identified defects on a storage medium to detect any growth in those defects over...
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