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Driving device for a recordable or a rewritable disk

US5940353A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 27, 1998
Grant dateAug 17, 1999
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B20/10
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disk drive of a driving device for a CD-R (compact disk recordable) disk or a CD-RW (CD-rewritable) disk, when a read-out error occurs due to a data mismatch in the PMA (program memory area) of the CD-R disk, it saves the address information concerning a start and a stop of a readable track which is recorded in the PMA, accesses a corresponding track based on the saved address information, reads out data of the accessed track, and then, records the read-out data in a new CD-R disk. Thereby, the larger amount of data can be recovered even if an error occurs in reproducing during the reading of the PMA of a recordable disk or a rewritable disk.

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