Drive device
A driving device, physical address technology, applied in the directions of instruments, data recording, record carrier parts, etc., can solve the problems of unable to continue data recording, unable to continue to record data, unable to effectively use the user data area, etc.
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no. 1 Embodiment approach
[0199] 1-1. Additional recording type recording medium
[0200] Figure 1A The appearance of the information recording medium 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention is shown.
[0201] A lead-in area 101 is arranged on the innermost periphery of the information recording medium 100 . A lead-out area 103 is arranged on the outermost periphery of the information recording medium 100 . A data area 102 is arranged between the lead-in area 101 and the lead-out area 103 of the information recording medium 100 .
[0202] In the lead-in area 101 , reference information necessary for an optical pickup included in the recording / reproducing unit 314 described later to access the information recording medium 100 , identification information with other recording media, and the like are recorded. The same information as that recorded in the lead-in area 101 is also recorded in the lead-out area 103 .
[0203] A plurality of physical sectors are allocated to the lead-in ...
no. 2 Embodiment approach
[0621] 2-1.NWA determination processing steps
[0622] Here, a method for specifying the next recordable position (hereinafter referred to as logical NWA) indicated by the logical address returned by the drive device 310 in response to the request from the host device 305 will be described.
[0623] In this embodiment, the logical NWA is determined by the following steps.
[0624] Firstly, the next ECC cluster of the ECC cluster including the physical sector indicated by the LRA is determined. This ECC cluster is the next recorded ECC cluster. The head physical sector where the ECC cluster is recorded becomes the next recordable position, and the next recordable position indicated by this physical address is the above-mentioned NWA.
[0625] The value of the logical NWA is the value obtained after converting the PSN value represented by the NWA into an LSN according to the initial logical address-physical address mapping.
[0626] A few specific examples are used below for ...
no. 3 Embodiment approach
[0644] 3-1. Record processing steps (1)
[0645] In the NWA determination method in the above-mentioned second embodiment, a certain LSN may not be used.
[0646] For example, in Figure 14A , the logical sector at the position of LSN=96 is a logical sector in which no data has ever been recorded from the perspective of the host device 305 or the file system.
[0647] Such a logical sector is called an unrecorded logical sector, or an unused logical sector, an orphan logical sector, or the like.
[0648] In addition, a logical cluster composed of such unrecorded logical sectors is called an unrecorded logical cluster. For example, Figure 14A The positions where LSN=96 to 127 are unrecorded logical clusters.
[0649] Similarly, in Figure 15A In , the position of LSN=X2 is an unrecorded logical sector.
[0650] like Figure 14A etc., for such an unrecorded logical sector, an LSN is allocated like other common logical sectors, and the LSN of subsequent logical sectors re...
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