JPH07325671A - Information recording/reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to easily start a copy processing only when a medium is inserted into a device and to copy information on plural media by a simple operation. CONSTITUTION:An information recording/reproducing device copying the information of a master disk in plural copy destination disks is provided with a disk drive unit 1a for reading master disk, plural disk drive units 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e for writing copy destination disk and a control part 2 controlling these disk drive units and a display operation panel 4 performing the display of the operating state of the device, etc. The disk drive units 1a to 1e are connected with the control part 2 via SCSI buses 3a and 3b. The control part 2 detects that a master disk is mounted on a drive and starts a copy processing.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information recording / reproducing apparatus for recording / reproducing information on / from an exchangeable recording medium such as a magneto-optical disc, a phase change type optical disc, etc. The present invention relates to an information recording / reproducing apparatus for copying onto a plurality of other media.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a small computer or the like, a floppy disk or the like has been widely used as a replaceable information recording medium which can be exchanged and carried around. Further, recently, as an information recording medium capable of recording a large amount of data such as image data, an optical exchangeable recording medium such as a magneto-optical disc or a phase change type optical disc has been used.

In such an exchangeable recording medium, it is possible to obtain a medium on which the same information is recorded from the original medium (master) by copying all information on the medium. . For example, when distributing information content, copying from a master medium to a plurality of media is performed.

In a recording / reproducing apparatus using a magneto-optical disk or a floppy disk, the information recorded on the master disk is copied to a plurality of disks so that a plurality of disks having the same information content can be simultaneously produced. Various medium copying apparatuses have been proposed.

In the conventional copying apparatus for a magneto-optical disk, a disk driving apparatus for reproducing a master disk, a plurality of disk driving apparatuses for recording on a copy destination disk, and a command for instructing copy start and the like. In general, there is provided a hard disk device for temporarily storing data of the master disk, as well as having an operation means such as an operation switch.

In such a copying apparatus for a magneto-optical disk, the user gives an instruction to start copying by operating an operation switch or the like, and when the apparatus receives the instruction of the copying operation, the apparatus records the data recorded on the master disk. All data is once recorded on the hard disk, and then the data is copied from the hard disk to a plurality of copy destination disks.

Therefore, in the conventional apparatus, a user's instruction operation such as a switch operation for instructing the start of copying is required, and the copy process may not be easily performed. Also,
In a device for a magneto-optical disk, it takes a lot of time in a disk drive device to record information, and a controller or other disk drive device that controls a copy operation may have a long waiting time. In the method of temporarily recording all the data of the master disk on the hard disk and then copying it to the copy destination disk, the time efficiency at the time of copying may not be so good.

[0008]

As described above, the information recording / reproducing apparatus having the function of copying the information on the master medium to a plurality of media has hitherto been a problem that all of the master media are reproduced based on a user's instruction to start copying. The information is generally recorded in a buffer memory means such as a hard disk and then recorded in each of a plurality of copy destination media. Therefore, in the conventional apparatus, some instruction operation by the user such as a switch operation for sending an instruction to start copying is required, and the copy process may not be easily performed.

Further, since the state of the copy process cannot be easily confirmed in the conventional apparatus, the user cannot grasp whether the copy process is normally completed or there is an abnormality during the copy process, and an erroneous operation is made. I was invited.
In addition, no particular consideration has been given to protection measures against erroneous operations.

The present invention has been made in view of these circumstances. A first object of the present invention is to simply start a copy process by inserting a medium into an apparatus, and to perform information on a plurality of media by a simple operation. An object of the present invention is to provide an information recording / reproducing apparatus capable of copying.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an information recording / reproducing apparatus capable of preventing erroneous operations during copy processing and protecting the information on the master medium.

[0012] A third purpose is to provide information that enables easy confirmation as to whether the copy process has ended normally or there has been an error during the copy process, and which can alert the user to prevent erroneous operations. It is to provide a recording / reproducing apparatus.

[0013]

An information recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises a master medium reproducing means for reading information recorded on a master medium and a copy destination medium for reproducing the information on the read master medium. A device for copying information recorded on a master medium to a plurality of copy destination media, comprising:
It is provided with a copy control means for detecting that the master medium has been loaded in the master medium playback means and for starting the copy processing by loading the master medium.

An information recording / reproducing apparatus according to a second aspect is the information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the copy control means detects a state of a write protection mechanism provided on the master medium, and the master medium is the master. The copy processing is started when the write protection mechanism of the master medium is mounted on the medium reproducing means.

An information recording / reproducing apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention is the information recording / reproducing apparatus of the first aspect, wherein the copy control means detects the occurrence of an abnormality during the copy processing and ends the copy processing when the copy processing is completed. Is ejected from the master medium reproducing means and the copy destination medium recording means, and the medium having an abnormality during the copying process is not ejected from the master medium reproducing means or the copy destination medium recording means. It was done like this.

[0016]

In the information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, the copy control means detects that the master medium is mounted on the master medium reproducing means for reading the information recorded on the master medium, and the copy processing is performed by mounting the master medium. To start.

In the information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, the copy control means detects the state of the write protection mechanism provided on the master medium, the master medium is mounted on the master medium reproducing means, and the write protection of the master medium is performed. The copy process is started when the mechanism is on.

According to another aspect of the information recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention, the copy control means detects the occurrence of an abnormality during the copying process, and when the copying process is ended, the master and the copy destination medium for which the copying process is normally completed are selected. The medium is ejected from the master medium reproducing unit and the copy destination medium recording unit, and the medium having an abnormality during the copying process is not ejected from the master medium reproducing unit or the copy destination medium recording unit.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7 relate to an embodiment of the present invention.
Is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the information recording / reproducing apparatus, FIG.
Is a front and side view showing the external appearance and internal configuration of the information recording / reproducing apparatus, FIG. 3 is a configuration explanatory view showing the arrangement configuration of the display operation panel, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control unit, and FIGS. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information recording / reproducing apparatus in the present embodiment.

In this embodiment, as an information recording / reproducing apparatus for recording / reproducing information on / from an exchangeable recording medium, an exchangeable recording medium copying apparatus having a function of copying information on a master medium to a plurality of copy destination mediums. It shows a configuration example.
In this embodiment, a magneto-optical disk device using a magneto-optical disk as an exchangeable recording medium will be described as an example. The replaceable medium is not limited to the magneto-optical disc, and the present embodiment can be applied to an apparatus using a medium such as a phase change optical disc, a CD-R, a floppy disc, and a floppy disc using an optical servo. .

As shown in FIG. 1, the information recording / reproducing apparatus of the present embodiment is a disk drive unit for reading a master disk as a master medium reproducing means for mounting a copy source master disk and reading out data recorded on the master disk. 1a, a plurality of disk drive units 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e for writing a copy destination disk as a copy destination medium recording means for mounting a copy destination disk and writing data to the copy destination disk, and for these master and copy destinations And a control unit 2 as a copy control means for controlling the disk drive unit.

The disk drive units 1a to 1e for the master and the copy destination have two systems of SCSI (Sm
all Computer System Interface) connected to the control unit 2 via buses 3a and 3b. In the example of FIG. 1, the disk drive units 1a, 1b, 1c are SCSI buses.
(1) Connected to 3a, disk drive unit 1d,
1e is connected to SCSI bus (2) 3b, and each SC
Control commands and data are transferred to and from the control unit 2 via the SI buses 3a and 3b.

Further, a display operation panel 4 for displaying the operating state of the apparatus, and drive LEDs 5a to 5e as display elements for displaying the state of each disk drive unit.
Are provided and are connected to the control unit 2. The drive LEDs 5a-5e are composed of, for example, LEDs of two colors, green / red. Further, a power supply unit 6 for supplying power to the disk drive units 1a to 1e, the control unit 2, the display operation panel 4 and the like is provided, is connected to each unit in the apparatus, and sends power to each unit. .

FIG. 2 shows the external appearance and internal structure of the information recording / reproducing apparatus of this embodiment. In FIG. 2, (a) is a front view of the apparatus seen from the front, and (b) is a side view of the apparatus seen from the side with a side housing cut out to show the inside of the apparatus.

The information recording / reproducing apparatus is constructed such that each part is housed in a housing 10, a display operation panel 4 is disposed on the upper front part of the housing 10, and a disk drive unit 1a is provided under the display operation panel 4. 1e are arranged side by side in the vertical direction, and the display operation panel 4 and the disk drive units 1a to 1e are exposed on the front surface of the housing. Drive LEDs 5a to 5e are arranged on the front panel on the side of the disk drive units 1a to 1e corresponding to the respective drives. Disk drive units 1a-1e
A control board 11 on which the circuit of the control unit 2 is mounted is arranged in the lower part of. The power supply unit 6 is arranged at the bottom of the housing 10.

Each disk drive unit 1a-1e
The holder 12 is attached so as to hold the bottom of the unit, and the brackets 13 provided in the vertical direction on both sides of the housing 10 are engaged with the protrusions 12 a on both sides of the holder 12. Rail portions 13a are formed on the bracket 13 at equal intervals in the vertical direction according to the heights of the disk drive units 1a to 1e, and the disk drive units 1a to 1e are inserted from the rear portion of the housing 10 and the holder 12 is inserted.
By engaging the protruding portion 12a of the rail with the rail portion 13a of the bracket 13 and sliding it forward,
The disk drive units 1a to 1e can be housed along the line a.

Further, both ends of the board holder 14 holding the control board 11 are engaged with the rail section 13b at the lower end of the bracket 13, and the control board 11 is extended along the rail section 13b.
Is stored.

At the rear of the power supply unit 6 arranged at the bottom of the housing 10, a power switch 15 exposed on the rear panel is provided.
And AC with AC inlet and outlet 16
A part 6a is provided. Further, a cooling fan 17 for sucking the internal air or blowing the external air to cool the drive unit is arranged behind each of the disk drive units 1a to 1e. The cooling fan may be separate from the disk drive unit as in the example of FIG. 2, or a disk drive unit with a built-in cooling fan may be used. When a disk drive unit with a built-in cooling fan is used, a ventilation hole may be provided on the rear surface of the housing so as to correspond to the cooling fan of each drive.

The constituent elements are not limited to being integrally provided in the housing as in this embodiment, but the control unit 2 and the display / operation panel 4 and the disk drive units 1a to 1e may be provided separately, or a plurality of them may be provided. The disk drive unit section may be provided. Moreover, the number and arrangement of the disk drive units may be configured according to the purpose of use.

FIG. 3 shows the detailed arrangement of the display operation panel 4.
Shown in. At the center of the display operation panel 4, there is provided a counter display unit 41 for displaying the progress degree at the time of copy processing or the number of mediums for which copying has been completed by a numeral. The counter display unit 41 is configured by arranging three 7-segment display elements side by side, and can display a numerical value of up to 3 digits.

On the left side of the display / operation panel 4, a single green LED that lights up when the power is on.
Power source display LED 42 and the counter display section 4
A copy number reset switch 43 for resetting the copy completion number displayed in 1 is provided. On the right side of the display operation panel 4, a number display LED 44 that lights up when the number of copied media is displayed on the counter display section 41, and a progress degree at the time of copy processing is displayed on the counter display section 41. Percentage display LED45 that lights up
And a display changeover switch 46 for manually changing over between the copy completion number display and the copy progress degree display. The number display LED 44 and the percentage display LED
Reference numeral 45 is composed of, for example, a green single color LED.

In the display / operation panel 4, the power supply display LED 42 lights up in green when the power switch 15 of the apparatus is turned on and the power is turned on, and the copy progress is displayed as a percentage on the counter display section 41 during the copying operation. And the percent display LED 45 lights up in green,
At the end of copying, the number of copied media is displayed on the counter display section 41, and the number display LED 44 lights up in green. Further, by pressing the copy number reset switch 43 before the start of copying, the display value of the copy completed number can be reset to zero. Further, by pressing the display changeover switch 46, it is possible to manually switch between the copy completion number display and the copy progress degree display.

As a modification of the display operation panel, a copy completion number display section and a copy progress degree display section are provided separately,
It may be configured to display the number of completed copies and the progress of copying for each. Further, the display operation panel may be configured by a liquid crystal display panel or the like, and each display unit may be provided.

The detailed structure of the control unit 2 is shown in FIG. The control unit 2 includes a CPU 21 that controls each unit, a buffer memory 22 that stores master disk data read from the master disk drive unit 1a in blocks of a predetermined amount during a copy operation, and a SCSI bus (1) 3
a and SCSI bus (2) SCSI protocol controller (SPC) that performs sequence control on each bus
(1) 23, (2) 24, and an LED driver 25 that drives the drive LEDs 5a to 5e to perform lighting display.

As shown by the broken line in FIG. 4, the CPU 2
A control signal from 1 is sent to the SPC (1) 23, the SPC (2) 24, the buffer memory 22, the display operation panel 4, and the LED driver 25, and each part is controlled. C
The PU 21 controls recording / reproducing operations in the respective disk drive units 1a to 1e on the SCSI buses 3a and 3b via the SPC (1) 23 and SPC (2) 24, and the master disk drive unit 1a controls the master disk. The data is read out by a predetermined amount of blocks and stored in the buffer memory 22, and the data in the buffer memory 22 is sent to the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e and recorded on each copy destination disk. In addition, depending on the state of the device, the CPU 2
The display operation panel 4 and the LED driver 25 are controlled by 1, and each display unit of the display operation panel 4 and the drive LE.
Display control of D5a to 5e is performed.

The buffer memory 22 is composed of, for example, a semiconductor memory having a capacity of 2 MB in consideration of the time efficiency at the time of copy processing, and temporarily stores a part of the data read from the master disk. There is. The apparatus of this embodiment has a structure having two SCSI buses so as to improve the drive operation rate in order to speed up the copy process. The number of SCSI buses may be appropriately increased or decreased according to the number of disk drive units to be arranged. Although the number of disk drive units connected to one SCSI bus is three in this embodiment,
It may be appropriately set from 1 to 7.

Next, the operation of the information recording / reproducing apparatus of this embodiment will be described.

When the information recording / reproducing apparatus is used, a power cable (not shown) is connected to the AC inlet on the rear surface while the power switch 15 of the apparatus is off, and this power cable is connected to a commercial power source. And the power switch 15
To turn on the device. After that, CPU21
By the control of 0, 0 is displayed as the number of completed copies on the display operation panel 4, and each disk drive unit 1a ...
The drive LEDs 5a to 5e beside 1e all light up in green. Further, the CPU 21 detects the disk insertion state of the master and copy destination disk drive units 1a to 1e, and if the disk is inserted before the power is turned on, ejects the disk from the corresponding disk drive unit.

The operation of the copy process for simultaneously copying the data of the master disk to a plurality of copy destination disks will be described below.

When performing copying, the user first inserts the required number of copy destination disks into the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e to set the copy destination disks in the drives. At this time, the copy destination disk is not write-protected by turning off the write-protect slide switch as a write protection mechanism provided in the disk cartridge.
The disk drive units 1b to 1e for the copy destination are
When the copy destination disc is set, it initializes and waits for recording and playback. The CPU 21 detects the disk insertion state of the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e, and the drive LEDs 5b to 5e.
Among the e, the LED corresponding to the drive in which the copy destination disk is set is turned off.

Next, the user sets the master disk in the drive by inserting the master disk into the master disk drive unit 1a. At this time, the master disk is write-protected by turning on the write-protect slide switch. Disk drive unit 1a for master
When the master disc is set, initializes and waits in a playable state. When the CPU 21 detects that the master disk is set in the master disk drive unit 1a, it turns off all the drive LEDs 5a to 5e and starts the copy process. That is, the copy process is started only by the user inserting the master disc after inserting the copy destination disc.

The flowcharts of FIGS. 5 to 7 are CPUs.
The operation is mainly shown by the operation No. 21 and will be described below with reference to these flowcharts.

First, as preprocessing, step S shown in FIG.
1 (Hereafter, steps are omitted and simply written as S1)
Then, the CPU 21 sends a command to the master disk drive unit 1a to check the insertion state of the master disk whether the master disk is set or not. Then, in S2, it is determined whether or not the master disc is set, and if the master disc is not set, the process returns to S1. That is, the CPU 21, the master and copy destination disk drive units 1a to 1e are in a standby state until the master disk is set.

When the master disk is set in S2, the process proceeds to S3 to send a command to the master disk drive unit 1a to check whether the master disk is write-protected. Then, in S4, it is determined whether or not the write protection is not applied to the master disk. If the write protection is not applied, in S5, the error processing for lighting the drive LED 5a beside the master disk drive unit 1a in yellow is performed and S1 is executed. Return to.

If the master disk inserted in S4 is write-protected, the operation proceeds to S6, in which a command is sent to the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e to determine whether or not the copy destination disk is set. Check the insertion status of. And S7
In step S5, it is determined whether or not the copy destination disk is set. If no copy destination disk is set, an error process for turning on the drive LED 5a beside the master disk drive unit 1a in yellow is executed in S5. Go and return to S1.

If the copy destination disk is set in S7, the flow advances to S8 to send a command to the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e to check whether the copy destination disk is write-protected. Then, in S9, it is judged whether or not the copy destination disk is write-protected, and if it is write-protected, the drive LEDs 5b to 5e are written in S5.
Among them, an error process for turning on the LED corresponding to the disk drive unit for the copy destination having an error in yellow is performed, and the process returns to S1.

Since the error processing in S5 is processing at the time of a slight error due to a user's operation error, green / red 2
The color drive LED is illuminated both green and red to amber to notify the user of the error. In this case, unless the user presses the eject switch of the drive in which the write protect error has occurred to eject the master disc or the copy destination disc, the next process is not proceeded. As the error processing in S5, instead of turning on the drive LED, if the master disk is not write-protected or the copy destination disk is set to 1
If no sheets are set, use the master disc,
When the copy destination disc is write-protected, the copy destination disc may be automatically ejected, or both the lighting of the LED and the ejection of the disc may be performed.

If the copy destination disk inserted in S9 is not write-protected, the copy process starts and the process proceeds to the subsequent copy processes shown in FIG. That is, by setting the copy destination disk (one or more) that is not write protected to the copy destination disk drive unit, and then setting the write protected master disk to the master disk drive unit, the copy process Is started.

In the copy process, first, S10 in FIG.
Then, the eject switches of all the disk drive units 1a to 1e are locked to prevent erroneous ejection of the disks during the copying process. After that, the data on the entire surface of the master disk is copied to the copy destination disk.

In step S11, the CPU 21 sends a command to the master disk drive unit 1a to read a predetermined amount of block data from the master disk out of the master disk, transfer it via the SCSI bus 3a, and transfer it to the buffer memory 22. Read into. And
In S12, the disk drive unit 1b for the copy destination
A command is sent to 1e, the data in the buffer memory 22 is transferred via the SCSI buses 3a and 3b, and written in the copy destination disk. Then, in S13, a control signal is sent to the display operation panel 4 to display the progress of the copy process on the counter display section 41 of the display operation panel 4 in%.

Next, in S14, it is determined whether or not an error has occurred during the copy operation. If an error occurs in reading or writing of data due to a defect of the disk or the like, in S15, for the master which has an error or Remove the copy destination disk drive unit from the process. And S
In step 16, it is determined whether or not the copy processing cannot be continued in the disk drive unit other than the drive in which the error has occurred. Here, if a read error of the master disk or a write error in all the copy destination disks occurs, it is determined that the copy processing cannot be continued, the copy processing is stopped, and the copy is ended. On the other hand, for the copy destination disk drive unit in which no error has occurred, the copy processing of the copy destination disk is continued.

If an error does not occur during the copy operation in S14 or if the copy process can be continued in S16, S17
Then, it is determined whether or not all the data on the entire surface of the master disk has been copied to the copy destination disk. If the copying of all the data is not completed, the process returns to S11 and the processes of S11 to S17 are repeated. In this embodiment, since the capacity of the buffer memory 22 is smaller than the storage capacity of the disk, the above-mentioned data copying operation is repeated until the copying of the entire surface of the disk is completed.

It is also conceivable that a hard disk is provided as a buffer memory means like the conventional apparatus and all the data of the master disk is once recorded on the hard disk and then this data is written to a plurality of copy destination disks, respectively. However, if a large waiting time is generated in the disk drive unit during copying, the drive operating rate will decrease. By setting the number of disk drive units and SCSI buses and the capacity of the buffer memory in consideration of the drive operation rate as in the present embodiment, high-speed copy processing can be performed without providing a hard disk or the like.

When the copying of all the data is completed in S17, the copying is completed, and the process proceeds to the subsequent post-processing shown in FIG. At this time, the copy progress degree display on the display operation panel 4 is 100%.

In the post-processing, first, in S18 of FIG. 7, the eject switches of all the disk drive units 1a to 1e are unlocked. Next, in S19, the master and copy destination disk drive units 1a to
Among the items 1e, a command is sent to the drive in which no error has occurred during the copy operation, and only the master and copy destination disk for which copying has been normally completed are ejected. Then, the drive LEDs beside the master and copy destination disk drive units that have ejected the disk are lit in green. From the green display of the drive LED, the user can confirm the normal end of copying and recognize that the next copy destination disk can be inserted.

Then, in S20, it is determined whether or not there is an error due to a disc defect or the like during the copying process, and if there is an error, as a process at the time of a copy error due to a disc defect or the like, in S21, the drive LEDs 5a to 5e The LED beside the master or copy destination disk drive unit in which the error has occurred is lit in red to notify the user of the abnormality. Then, in S22, it is determined whether the user has ejected the master disk or the copy destination disk in which the error has occurred, and waits until the user ejects the disk. At this time, the user presses the eject switch of the disk drive unit to eject the master or copy destination disk in which the error occurred. Therefore, the user confirms the disk copy error by the red display of the drive LED,
The disc does not proceed to the next processing unless the disc in which the error has occurred is ejected by the user.

If a hardware error (including mechanical failure or electrical failure) of the device such as a semiconductor laser failure occurs in the master or copy destination disk drive unit during the copy process, the error The drive LED beside the generated disk drive unit may blink in red. Further, if another error occurs (such as an error in the control unit 2 or a hardware error in a portion other than the disk drive unit (including mechanical / electrical failure)) during operation of the device, the display operation panel 4 The error number is displayed on the screen so that the cause of the error can be determined during repair.

When an error does not occur during the copy process in S20 or when the master or copy destination disk in which the error occurred is ejected in S22, the copy process ends and the process proceeds to S23 to control the display operation panel 4. The counter display section 41 of the display operation panel 4 displays the number of copy destination disks for which the signal has been sent and the copy process has been normally completed, as the copy completion number. Then, the process returns to S1 of FIG. 5 and the above-mentioned processing is repeated again.

In the apparatus of this embodiment, the time required for one copy process is about 9 minutes for a 3.5-inch magneto-optical disk having a storage capacity of 128 MB, for example. Therefore, in the configuration shown in FIG. 1, four copy discs can be produced from one master disc in about 9 minutes.

When the same master disk is further copied, the copied disk ejected from the disk drive unit is taken out and a new copy destination disk is set as the copy destination disk drive unit 1b-1.
After being inserted in e, the same master disk is again inserted in the master disk drive unit 1a to perform copying. Further, when copying another master disk, after inserting a new copy destination disk into the copy destination disk drive units 1b to 1e, another different master disk is inserted into the master disk drive unit 1a and copied. I do.

The copy completion number display on the display operation panel 4 is reset to 0 by the user pressing the number reset switch 43. Therefore, when the next copy is performed without resetting the copy completion number display after the completion of one copy, the number of copy destination discs that have been copied is added to the previous number and displayed. When copying the same master disc in succession, the total number of copy destination discs that have been copied is displayed by repeating the copy without resetting the copy completion number display. You can check the total number of copy destination disks. Further, when copying another master disc, the copy number display switch 43 may be pressed to reset the copy number display before inserting the master disc into the disc drive unit.

According to the configuration of this embodiment, the copying process can be automatically started only by setting the master disk after setting the copy destination disk in the disk drive unit. It is not necessary to provide the above and the like, and the user can start the copy operation by a simple operation without performing a copy start instruction operation, and information can be easily copied from the master disk to a plurality of disks simultaneously.

Further, since the copy process is started after confirming the write protect states of the master and copy destination disks at the start of copying, the data on the master disk cannot be erased or written to the copy destination disk by mistake. It is possible to prevent operational mistakes such as not being performed.

Further, since the master and the copy destination disk, which have completed the copying, are automatically ejected, it can be confirmed that the copying is completed normally. On the other hand, if an error occurs during copying, by not ejecting the disk with the error, it is possible to recognize the occurrence of the error and alert the user,
It is possible to prevent erroneous operation.

By displaying the progress of the copy process on the display / operation panel during the copy process, the user can check the progress of the copy process and can know the copy end time. Further, by displaying the number of discs for which copying has been normally completed on the display operation panel, it is possible to easily confirm the number of discs for which copying has been completed.

[Appendix] As described in detail above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the following configuration can be obtained.
That is, (1) a master medium reproducing means for reading information recorded on the master medium, and a plurality of copy destination medium recording means for writing the read information on the master medium to a copy destination medium are recorded on the master medium. An information recording / reproducing apparatus for copying the recorded information to a plurality of copy destination media,
An information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: a copy control unit that detects that a master medium has been mounted in the master medium reproducing unit and that starts a copy process by mounting the master medium.

(2) The copy control means detects the occurrence of an abnormality during the copy processing, and when the copy processing ends, ejects the medium for which the copy processing ended normally from the copy destination medium recording means, The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to the above-mentioned appendix (1), wherein a medium having an abnormality during the copying process is not ejected from the copy destination medium recording means.

(3) The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to appendix (1), further comprising copy progress degree display means for displaying the progress degree of copy processing by the copy control means.

(4) The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to appendix (1), further including copy completion number display means for displaying the number of media on which the copy processing by the copy control means has been normally completed.

(5) The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to appendix (2), further including an abnormality notifying means for notifying the occurrence of an abnormality when an abnormality occurs during the copy processing by the copy control means.

(6) A master medium reproducing means for reading information recorded on the master medium and a plurality of copy destination medium recording means for writing the read information on the master medium to the copy destination medium are provided on the master medium. An information recording / reproducing apparatus for copying recorded information to a plurality of copy destination media, wherein a mounting state of a master medium in the master medium reproducing means and a mounting state of a copy destination medium in the copy destination medium recording means are detected. Then, the information recording / reproducing apparatus is provided with a copy control means for starting the copying process when the master medium is loaded while the copy destination medium is loaded.

(7) The copy control means has a buffer memory means for temporarily storing the read information of the master medium, and a part of a predetermined amount of information is read from the master medium by the master medium reproducing means. The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to appendix (1), wherein the information in the buffer memory means is written into the plurality of copy destination media by the copy destination medium recording means.

[0073]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily start the copying process only by inserting the medium into the apparatus, and it is possible to copy information to a plurality of mediums by a simple operation. There is an effect that a reproducing device can be provided. In addition, it is possible to prevent an erroneous operation during copy processing and protect the information on the master medium. Further, it is possible to easily confirm whether the copy process has ended normally or whether there is an abnormality during the copy process, and it is possible to prevent the erroneous operation by calling the user's attention.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an information recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A and 2B are diagrams showing an external appearance and an internal configuration of an information recording / reproducing apparatus, in which FIG. 2A is a front view of the apparatus and FIG. 2B is a side view of the apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a configuration explanatory view showing a layout configuration of a display operation panel.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation of the information recording / reproducing apparatus in the present embodiment, which is a flowchart of a preprocessing part.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an operation of the information recording / reproducing apparatus in the present embodiment, which is a flowchart of a copy processing portion.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an operation of the information recording / reproducing apparatus in the present embodiment and is a flowchart of a post-processing part.

[Explanation of symbols]

1a ... Disk drive unit (for master reproduction) 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e ... Disk drive unit (for copy destination recording) 2 ... Control section 3a, 3b ... SCSI bus 4 ... Display operation panel 5a-5e ... Drive LED 6 ... Power supply unit 21 ... CPU 22 ... Buffer memory 23, 24 ... SCSI protocol controller (SP
C) 41 ... Counter display section 44 ... Number display LED 45 ... Percentage display LED

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A master medium reproducing means for reading information recorded on a master medium, and a plurality of copy destination medium recording means for writing the read information of the master medium on a copy destination medium. An information recording / reproducing apparatus for copying the recorded information to a plurality of copy destination media, which detects that a master medium has been mounted in the master medium reproducing means, and which starts copy processing by mounting the master medium. An information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: 2. The copy control means detects the state of a write protection mechanism provided in the master medium, the master medium is mounted in the master medium reproducing means, and the write protection mechanism of the master medium is in an on state. The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the copying process is started at times. 3. The copy control means detects the occurrence of an abnormality during the copy processing, and when the copy processing is ended, the master and the copy destination medium for which the copy processing has ended normally are transferred to the master medium reproducing means and the copy. 2. The information recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medium ejected from the destination medium recording means and the medium having an abnormality during the copying process is not ejected from the master medium reproducing means or the copy destination medium recording means. .