KR100860997B1 - Apparatus for recording/reproducing data on a disc using padding information and information storage medium thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a recording / reproducing method using padding information, a recording / reproducing apparatus thereof, and an information storage medium thereof.

According to the present invention, an apparatus for recording information on a disk includes a pickup section for irradiating light for recording information on the disk, an LDC cluster composed of a plurality of data units, and address information of the plurality of data units. And a control unit for controlling the pickup unit to record a recording unit block including a BIS cluster, wherein the BIS cluster includes status information indicating whether invalid data is included for each of the plurality of data units. do. This allows the disc drive to distinguish between valid data and invalid data in the error correction block, thereby improving the reliability of reproduction and ensuring the stability of the system.

Description

Apparatus for recording / reproducing data on a disc using padding information and information storage medium

The present invention relates to recording / reproducing of data, and more particularly, to a method for recording or reproducing data in a unit having a certain size in an information storage medium, an apparatus thereof, and an information storage medium thereof.

Recording or reproducing of data on an information storage medium such as HD, CD, or DVD is performed in a certain unit. The unit is called a recording unit block or a reproduction unit block. An example of the recording unit block or the reproduction unit block is an error correction block for correcting an error generated during recording or reproduction.

When the size of the error correction block is 64Kbytes, if only 4Kbytes of data having a size corresponding to a part of the error correction block is to be recorded, the remaining part, that is, 60Kbytes, is filled with a meaningless value such as 00h.

If the disk drive reads the error correction block and then performs error correction to reproduce an error correction block in which only a part of it has significant data, the codewords containing 4 Kbytes of meaningful data are left intact even though error correction is possible. Codewords containing 60Kbytes of data filled with meaninglessness cannot be error corrected and thus the entire error correction block is determined to be uncorrectable. Since the disk drive cannot identify which part of the error correction block is meaningful data and which part is filled with meaningless data, it may try to correct or replay the error again, or the error correction block may not be finalized even though it contains some meaningful data. There is a problem that the error handling.

Accordingly, the technical problem of the present invention is to enable the disk drive to distinguish between valid and invalid data in the error correction block, thereby improving recording reliability and ensuring system stability, and recording / reproducing thereof. An apparatus and an information storage medium thereof are provided.

According to the present invention, (a) recording a recording unit block padded with invalid data in part; And (b) recording padding information indicating that the invalid data is contained.

The step (b) is to record the padding information to correspond to at least one recording unit block. Preferably, the padding information is recorded so as to correspond to at least one reproduction unit block, or the padding information is recorded in the recording unit block.

The step (b) includes recording, as the padding information, information indicating whether or not there is padded data in the corresponding at least one recording unit block or reproduction unit block, or corresponding at least one recording unit block. Or recording the information indicating the location of the data padded in the reproduction unit block as the padding information, or the information indicating the data value padded in the corresponding at least one recording unit block or the reproduction unit block. It is preferable to include recording as information.

On the other hand, according to another field of the present invention, the technical problem is a step of (a) reading at least one recording unit block containing valid data in the part, and the invalid data is padded in the rest; And (b) obtaining the valid data on the basis of the padding information.

In the step (a), the at least one recording unit block is preferably an error correction block.

Preferably, the step (b) includes reading the padding information recorded to correspond to the at least one reproduction unit block from an information storage medium, or reading the padding information recorded in the recording unit block. Do.

Step (b) determines whether there is padded data in at least one recording unit block or reproduction unit block from the padding information, and if padded data exists, valid data other than the padded data is stored. Obtaining the position of the data padded in the corresponding at least one recording unit block or the reproduction unit block from the padding information, and obtaining valid data other than the padded data; or Determining the position of the data padded in the corresponding at least one recording unit block or reproduction unit block, and obtaining valid data other than the padded data from the at least one recording unit block, or from the padding information. Or padded in the playback unit block It is desirable to include the step of finding the data value and obtaining valid data except for the padded data.

On the other hand, according to another field of the present invention, the technical problem is a pickup unit for recording data on the disk; And a control unit for controlling the pickup unit to record the data by controlling the pickup unit to record a recording unit block in which some invalid data is padded, and to record padding information indicating that the invalid data is contained. It is also achieved by a recording apparatus characterized by including.

On the other hand, according to another field of the present invention, the technical problem is a pickup unit for reading at least one recording unit block containing valid data in a part of the disk, the invalid data is padded in the rest; And a control unit for obtaining the valid data based on the padding information.

On the other hand, according to another field of the present invention, the technical problem is a recording unit block in which valid data is contained in a portion, and the invalid data is padded in the rest: and padding information indicating that the invalid data is contained It is also achieved by an information storage medium, characterized in that it comprises.

Preferably, the padding information is recorded to correspond to at least one recording unit block, to be recorded to correspond to at least one reproduction unit block, or to be recorded in the recording unit block.

The padding information includes information indicating whether there is padded data in at least one corresponding recording unit block or reproduction unit block, or information indicating a position of the padded data and indicating a padded data value. It is preferable to further include at least one of the information.

As described above, according to the present invention, the disk drive can distinguish between valid data and invalid data in the error correction block, thereby increasing the reliability of the playback and ensuring the stability of the system.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to the invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the apparatus according to the present embodiment is a device capable of recording or reproducing, and includes a recording / reading unit 1 and a control unit 2. Under the control of the control unit 2, the recording / reading unit 1 records data on the disc 100, which is an information storage medium according to the present embodiment, and reads out data for reproducing the recorded data. The control unit 2 controls the recording / reading unit 1 to record data in a predetermined recording unit block or processes the data read by the recording / reading unit 1 according to the present invention to obtain valid data. The reproduction means error correction of the read data to obtain valid data, and is performed in predetermined units. The unit in which reproduction is performed is called a reproduction unit block corresponding to the recording unit block. The reproduction unit block corresponds to at least one recording unit block.

At the time of recording, when the control unit 2 records an amount of data that cannot fill the recording unit block on the disk 100, some of the data contains valid data, and others have a constant size by padding the invalid data. Create a record unit block and record it. In addition, padding information indicating that invalid data is contained is recorded on the disc 100. In this embodiment, the padding information is recorded in the recording unit block. The padding information is not limited to inserting invalid data, but refers to information that can distinguish valid information from invalid information. Detailed description will be described later.

At the time of reproduction, the recording / reading section 1 reads at least one recording unit block containing some valid data from the disk 100 and padded invalid data in the rest, and the control unit 2 reads the recording unit. Only valid data is extracted and reproduced based on the padding information contained in the block.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a disk drive in which FIG. 1 is implemented.

2, the disc drive includes a pickup 10 as the recording / reading section 1. The disk 100 is mounted to the pickup 10. The disk drive also includes a PC I / F 21, a DSP 22, an RF AMP 23, a SERVO 24, and a SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 as the control unit 2.

In recording, the PC I / F 21 receives a recording command from the host (not shown) along with data to be recorded. The SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 performs the initialization required for recording. The DSP 22 adds additional data such as parity for error correction to the data to be recorded received by the PC I / F 21 and performs ECC encoding to generate an ECC block, which is an error correction block, and then, in a predetermined manner. Modulate. Here, in the case where it is desired to record the amount of data that is less than the size of the ECC block, the ECC block is made by padding invalid data. The padding information may be added first and then ECC encoding may be performed or after ECC encoding is performed. The RF AMP 23 converts the data output from the DSP 22 into an RF signal. The pickup 10 records the RF signal output from the RF AMP 23 on the disk 100. The SERVO 24 receives a command necessary for servo control from the SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 and servo controls the pickup 10.

At the time of reproduction, the PC I / F 21 receives a reproduction command from a host (not shown). The SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 performs initialization required for playback. The pickup 10 outputs an optical signal obtained by irradiating a laser beam to the disk 100 and receiving a laser beam reflected from the disk 100. The RF AMP 23 converts the optical signal output from the pickup 10 into an RF signal and provides modulated data obtained from the RF signal to the DSP 22, while providing a servo signal for control obtained from the RF signal. To provide. The DSP 22 demodulates the modulated data and outputs the data obtained through ECC error correction. In the case of an ECC block in which only valid data is recorded, only valid data is reproduced with reference to the padding information.

Meanwhile, the SERVO 24 receives the servo signal received from the RF AMP 23 and the command required for the servo control received from the SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 to perform servo control on the pickup 10. The PC I / F 21 sends data received from the DSP 22 to the host.

3A to 3G show padding information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 3A, padding information is recorded in a recording unit block in this embodiment, and corresponds to one recording unit block. That is, it is recorded for each recording unit block. The recording unit block is a unit in performing recording, and usually has a constant size.

Referring to Fig. 3B, padding information is recorded in a recording unit block in this embodiment, but corresponds to a plurality of recording unit blocks. That is, it is recorded for each of a plurality of recording unit blocks.

Referring to FIG. 3C, padding information is recorded in a recording unit block in this embodiment, but corresponds to two recording unit blocks. That is, it is recorded every two recording unit blocks.

Referring to FIG. 3D, the padding information corresponds to one playback unit block in this embodiment. That is, it is recorded for each reproduction unit block. The reproduction unit block corresponds to at least one recording unit block. Therefore, the padding information can be actually recorded in the recording unit block or recorded outside the recording unit block.

Referring to FIG. 3E, the padding information corresponds to a plurality of playback unit blocks in this embodiment. That is, it is recorded for each of a plurality of reproduction unit blocks.

Referring to FIG. 3F, the padding information in this embodiment corresponds to two playback unit blocks. That is, it is recorded every two reproduction unit blocks.

Referring to FIG. 3G, the padding information includes padding presence information, padding position information, and a padding value. The padding presence information indicates whether padded data exists. The padding position information indicates a position where valid data and invalid data exist in a recording unit block. The padding value tells you what the padded value is. In the case where the padded value is promised in advance, the padded value may not be recorded.

The padding information enables the disk drive of FIG. 2 to extract valid data from the recording unit block. In particular, when the recording unit block is an error correction block, even if a codeword containing only invalid data cannot be error corrected, if the codewords containing valid data are error correctable, error correction is performed to extract the valid data to the host. Can transmit In the case of transmitting the entire block, the portion corresponding to the invalid information is transmitted with the padded value as it is recorded.

Based on the padding information having the above configuration, referring to FIG. 2 again, the operation of the disk drive will be described in more detail as follows.

The SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 generally uses less than the size of the recording unit block (for example, 64 Kbytes) because the amount of management information recorded in the read-in or read-out of the disc 100 is less than that for smooth use of the disc 100. The pad is padded to a constant value such as 00h to make a recording unit block of a constant size and then transferred to the pickup 10. Alternatively, in recording data by a host recording command, the SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 receives and transmits data transmitted from the host when the size of the data to be recorded by the host is not a multiple of a recording unit block (eg, 64 Kbytes). The recording is divided and recorded according to the size of the unit block, and the remaining portion that is insufficient to fill the recording unit block is padded with a constant value such as 00h to make a recording unit block of a predetermined size and then transferred to the pickup 10.

If a part of the recording unit block is padded with a constant value such as 00h, the SYSTEM CONTROLLER 25 records the padding information together to indicate that padded invalid data exists, and that valid data and invalid data are not present. A position existing within the recording unit block is indicated, and an invalid data value (i.e., padded value, 00h if padded with 00h, ffh if padded with ffh) is recorded.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments will be described in detail.

< padding  Record of Information>

1. Data Frame Data Frame is for use in the existing invention U.S 6367049. It refers to 2Kbytes of data and generally means 2Kbytes of sector. The ECC format of the existing invention US 6367049 consists of an "ECC Cluster" consisting of 304 Long Distance Reed-Solomon error correction codes and a "BIS Cluster" consisting of 24 "Burst Indicator Subcodes (BIS)". In the process of creating a cluster, a portion of “Control Data” of “Logical address + Control Data” may be allocated for padding information and padding value in sector units having 1 sector of 2 Kbytes. Padding presence information (e.g. '1' has padded data, and '0' has only normal data) 1 bit per sector ("Data Frame") where 1 sector is 2 Kbytes, i.e. 32 bits (4 bytes) The padding value requires 1 byte per sector, that is, 32 bytes. If the padding value is promised as several specific values, it is preferable to record information that knows how many specific values (e.g., if there are two values that can be padded in sector units, 00h and ffh) You can see the padded value by displaying '0' or '1' as 1 bit only).

In summary, 4 bytes of padding information allocated to "Control Data" of "Logical address + Control Data" is recorded, and 32 bytes of padding value allocated to "Control Data" of "Logical address + Control Data" are recorded. Information indicating the padding value allocated to "Control Data" of "Logical address + Control Data" can be recorded.

2. If padding values are promised as one specific value, it is sufficient to record only padding information. In this case, the padding presence information may be stored in the "Physical address" (16 * 9 bytes) shown in Fig. 19 of the existing invention U.S 6367049. Since the recording unit block of the existing invention U.S 6367049 has 16 "Physical addresses" corresponding to 16 Physical sectors, one "Physical address" may form 9 bytes. Therefore, the presence or absence of padding information corresponding to 2 Data Frames can be recorded here.

In summary, the recording unit block of the existing invention US 6367049 includes 32 "Data Frames" from Data Frame 0 to Data Frame 31, so that Nth Physical address (N = 0) of 16 "Physical addresses" in the recording unit block is included. The presence or absence of padding information can be recorded in, 1,2, ..., 15).

< padding  Recording Operation of Information>

Under the structure of recording data in the ECC format of the existing invention US 6367049, in order to record data on the disk 100, user data is encoded into an error correction code to make an "ECC Cluster" and also a "BIS Cluster" to make a recording unit. In the process of creating a block, information about whether each "Data Frame" of "User data 32 frames" (64 Kbytes) is padded with a constant value in FIG. Logical address + Control Data (32 * 18bytes) "or" Physical address (16 * 6bytes) "

The host can send and receive data from the disk drive in sectors of 2Kbytes. For example, if the host told you to write 50sectors, the disk drive itself padded 18sectors with 14sectors of data at a later value, such as 00h. Since the disk drive knows the padding, the padding information and the padding value are included in the "Logical address + Control Data (32 * 18bytes)" or "Physical address (16 * 6bytes)" according to the present invention as padding information. Record it.

When a host writes data into a write unit block and transfers it to a disk drive, the disk drive cannot know whether it is padded or not. Therefore, in this case, the host must inform the drive.

 Even if there is no write command from the host, when the disk drive writes its management information on the disk to manage the disk on its own, the disk drive knows what data to write, so the disk drive decides whether to pad or not. Similarly, the padding presence information and the padding value can be recorded on the disc as padding information for each sector.

< padding  Information Replay Behavior>

When reproducing user data recorded in the data area of the disc by the reproducing command of the host, or reproducing the data without the reproducing command of the host in order to obtain disc management information recorded on the lead in or lead out of the disc. To correct the error by reading data from the disc in units of recording / reproducing unit, error correction of the "BIS Block" obtained by de-interleaving the "ECC Cluster" first when the data is recorded in the ECC format of the present invention US 6367049. do. Disk drive is padding information stored in "Logical address + Control Data (32 * 18bytes)" or "Physical address (16 * 9bytes)" obtained by error correction of this "BIS Block". And get the padding value. When the error correction of the "BIS Block" is completed, the "LDC Block" is corrected. Before the ECC encoding of the "LDC Block", the "Data Block" is changed from "19 columns" to "304 columns" in FIG. 8 of the present invention US 6367049. Except that it is obtained in the same manner.

Since the disk drive already knows padding information and padding value for each "Data Frame", it is possible to distinguish between codewords that contain valid information and codewords that do not. At this time, even if codewords containing only invalid information (that is, padded data frames) exist and the codewords cannot be error-corrected, if the codewords containing valid information are error-correctable, they are error-corrected. In case of the regeneration command, the corrected valid information is transmitted to the host, and in case of the drive's own regeneration command, the information is used as it is.

On the other hand, under the disc structure having the linking area between the recording unit block and the recording unit block, the above-mentioned padding information can be recorded and used in the linking area. In order to increase the reliability of the data, padding information read from the linking area may also be error corrected.

4 is a reference diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, after reproducing the "BIS Cluster" of the present invention US 6367049, the validity of data corresponding to each "Data Frame" is found and only the first two "Data Frames" are known to store valid information. Show "LDC Block" to perform error correction. If the error correction system is capable of error correcting all 19 codewords corresponding to the first two "Data Frames" in the "LDC Block", regardless of whether or not error codes of codewords corresponding to 30 data frames are invalid The data corresponding to the first two "Data Frames" and, if necessary, the remaining 30 Data Frames are transmitted as padding values during recording.

 If the recording method proposed in the present invention is not applied at the time of writing, the disk drive having the error correction system cannot know the situation as shown in FIG. 4, and thus, 19 codewords corresponding to two "Data Frames" are corrected. If possible, even if one of the remaining codewords is not error corrected, data is read from the disk again and error corrected or the block is error processed.

On the other hand, in a playback-only disc, the padding information according to the present invention is recorded in the process of storing data at the time of manufacture of the disc, thereby improving the playback efficiency during playback.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to the invention,

2 is a block diagram of a disk drive in which FIG. 1 is implemented;

3A to 3G are reference views showing padding information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a reference diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (3)

An apparatus for recording information on a disc, A pickup unit for irradiating light to record information on the disc; A control unit for controlling the pickup unit to record a recording unit block including an LDC cluster composed of a plurality of data units and a BIS cluster including address information of the plurality of data units; And the BIS cluster includes status information indicating whether invalid data is included for each of the plurality of data units. In a device for playing information on a disc, A pickup unit for irradiating light to reproduce information on the disc; A control unit for controlling the pickup unit to reproduce a recording unit block including an LDC cluster composed of a plurality of data units and a BIS cluster including address information of the plurality of data units, from the disk; And the BIS cluster includes status information indicating whether invalid data is included for each of the plurality of data units. A recording unit block including an LDC cluster composed of a plurality of data units and a BIS cluster including address information of the plurality of data units, And the BIS cluster includes status information indicating whether invalid data is included for each of the plurality of data units.

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