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- the present application relates to a reading method and apparatus for an information recording medium and spare area allocation thereof, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for reading replacements recorded in a spare area of the disc, as well as a method for allocating the replacements in the spare area.
- An information recording medium such as a video recording disc (e.g. DVDRAM) has spare areas.
- the spare areas are located at inner side and outer side of the innermost and outermost of a user data area of the disc, respectively.
- a defect usually indicates a defective ECC block, which contains 16 sectors. If there are defects, replacements corresponding to the defects are stored into the spare area to be used as back-up blocks. Each of the spare areas is sequentially occupied and used from the outermost toward the innermost. In a case that six defects are found in the user data area, as shown in FIG. 1 , corresponding replacements for the six defects are recorded in the spare area in a manner that the replacement for the first defect is recorded at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area. The replacement for the second defect is inwardly recorded beside the first replacement, that is, the outermost location of the unused region, of which the area has been reduced due to the occupation by the first replacement. The rest can be deduced similarly.
- the defect having the corresponding replacement thereof recorded is referred to a registered defect.
- the relationship information between the registered defects and the corresponding replacements, such as addresses, are recorded in a certain region of the disc, as commonly known in this field.
- a pick-up head of a reading apparatus reads the user data area 10 substantially from the innermost toward the outermost, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 2 and other drawings only the outer side spare area 20 is shown as an example for the sake of simplicity.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the user data area 10 having defects 11 , 13 , and 15 .
- the corresponding replacements 21 , 23 , and 25 are recorded in the spare area 20 .
- the defect 11 is found in a fore writing/verifying process, so the corresponding replacement 21 thereof is recorded at the outermost among the three replacements.
- the defects 13 and 15 are found sequentially in one or respective writing/verifying processes later. Accordingly, the corresponding replacements 23 and 25 are arranged inwardly at the inner side of the replacement 21 .
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a conventional reading procedure.
- the bold arrows indicate reading operations of the pick-up head and the normal arrows indicate seeking operations of the pick-up head.
- the pick-up head sequentially reads data in the user data area 10 .
- the pick-up head shifts to the spare area 20 to read the corresponding replacement 23 , and then returns to the user data area 10 to read the data following the defect 13 until the next defect 15 is read.
- the pick-up head then jumps to the spare area 20 to read the corresponding replacement 25 to supplement the data for the defect 15 .
- the pick-up head again returns to the user data area 10 to read the data following the defect 15 until the next defect 11 is read.
- the pick-up head once more jumps to the spare area 20 to read the replacement 21 corresponding to the defect 11 to supplement the data for the defect 11 . Then the pick-up head returns to the user data area 10 to read the rest of the data. As described above, to obtain a complete data sequence in the sequential reading procedure, the pick-up head needs to shift back and forth between the user data area 10 and the spare area 20 for many times, as shown in FIG. 4 .
- An objective of the present invention is to provide a method for reading an information recording medium.
- the information recording medium has a user data area and at least one spare area. Corresponding replacements for defects of the user data area are recorded in the spare area to be used as backup sectors. Utilizing the reading method in accordance with the present invention, the frequency that a pick-up head of a reading apparatus moves back and forth between the user data area and the spare area in a sequential reading procedure can be reduced.
- Another objective of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for reading an information recording medium.
- the information recording medium has a user data area and at least one spare area. Corresponding replacements for defects of the user data area are recorded in the spare area to be used as backup.
- the frequency of a pick-up head of the reading apparatus according to the present invention to go and return between the user data area and the spare area in a sequential reading procedure is reduced.
- a further objective of the present invention is to provide a modified allocation method for replacements in the spare area.
- the disposition of the replacements provided by this allocation method is more preferably accommodated with the reading method of the present invention.
- the method for allocating replacements in an information recording medium which has a user data area for recording data and a spare area for recording replacements corresponding to defects of the user data area, includes steps of: verifying a section of the user data area after writing said section to sequentially find defects in the section; recording corresponding replacements for the defects in the spare area, wherein the corresponding replacements for the last one to the first one of the defects are sequentially disposed inward from the outmost location of an unused portion of the spare area.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates allocation of replacements in prior art
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates arrangement of a user data area and spare area of a disc
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates correspondence between registered defects in the user data area and corresponding replacements in the spare area of the disc of FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a conventional reading procedure
- FIG. 5 schematically illustrates relevant components of a reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 schematically illustrate a reading procedure in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 8 is a flow chart generally showing the reading method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a flow chart generally showing the reading method in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the same step numbers in this drawing indicate the same steps as in FIG. 8 ;
- FIG. 10 generally and schematically shows distribution of defects in a user data area of a disc.
- FIG. 11 schematically illustrates allocation of replacements in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 5 roughly shows essential components of a reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention
- FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate an information recording medium reading method in accordance with the present invention.
- the bold arrows indicate reading operations of the pick-up head and the normal arrows indicate the seeking operations of the pick-up head in FIG. 6 .
- the reading apparatus includes a pick-up head 5 to read an information recording medium, such as a DVDRAM disc 1 , which is rotated by a spindle 3 , a decoder 7 for decoding data read from the disc 1 , a replacement controller 30 , a main buffer 40 , a cache buffer 50 and a register 60 .
- an information recording medium such as a DVDRAM disc 1
- a decoder 7 for decoding data read from the disc 1
- a replacement controller 30 for decoding data read from the disc 1
- main buffer 40 main buffer 40
- cache buffer 50 a register 60 .
- FIG. 8 simply shows a flow chart of a reading method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- a sequential reading procedure in accordance with the present invention for the disc 1 is performed.
- the disc 1 has the user data area 10 and the spare area 20 .
- the outer spare area is described as an example for the sake of simplicity.
- the corresponding replacements 21 , 23 and 25 for the registered defects 11 , 13 and 15 in the user data area 10 are recorded in the spare area 20 as previously described.
- the pick-up head (PUH) 5 of the reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention reads the user data area 10 sequentially in a sequential reading procedure (Step S 10 in FIG. 8 ).
- the replacement controller 30 conducts a search in the cache buffer 50 to find the corresponding replacement 23 thereof (Step S 20 in FIG. 8 ). If the corresponding replacement 23 is not found in the cache buffer 50 , the PUH 5 moves to the spare area 20 to read the corresponding replacement 23 , and also read the neighboring replacements thereof (Step S 30 in FIG. 8 ), ideally including replacements 21 and 25 in this embodiment. In another embodiment, only the neighboring replacement(s) after the corresponding replacement 23 , the replacement 21 in this case, is read with the replacement 23 .
- the range of the neighboring replacements being buffered in the cache buffer 50 can be determined according to a predetermined algorithm built in the reading apparatus. Alternatively, the range can be dynamically determined according to at least one of the parameters such as location relationship between the registered defect and the corresponding replacement, performance of the reading apparatus, reading mode, and condition of the disc 1 . The range can also be determined by the built-in algorithm and dynamically adjusted according to the parameters mentioned above.
- the achievability for reading the neighboring replacements can be less critical than that for reading the corresponding replacement. For example, it can be set that the reading apparatus attempts to read the corresponding replacement for six times at most, while the reading apparatus abandons to read the neighboring replacements thereof within a pre-defined range after three failed attempts.
- the respective times that the reading apparatus attempts to read the corresponding replacement and the neighboring replacements mentioned herein are only for explication. In practice, the number of times can be determined as desired.
- the read replacements are stored in the cache buffer 50 (Step S 40 in FIG. 8 ), and the data read from the user data area 10 is stored in the main buffer 40 .
- the corresponding replacement 23 is used to supplement the data for the registered defect 13 .
- the PUH 5 then subsequently reads the following data in the user data area 10 .
- the replacement controller 30 conducts another search in the cache buffer 50 and picks up the corresponding replacement 25 from the cache buffer 50 . If it fails to pick up the corresponding replacement 25 from the cache buffer 50 , the replacement controller 30 may permit of a predetermined times of attempts. If the corresponding replacement 25 is still failed to be picked up from the cache buffer 50 after the predetermined times of attempts, the replacement controller 30 determines to abandon this pick up operation.
- the replacements stored therein are all cleared if it is failed to find the corresponding replacement therefrom for a registered defect. However, if the capacity of the cache buffer 50 is large enough, it is also acceptable that only a portion of the replacements stored therein are cleared when the corresponding replacement for a registered defect is failed to be found in the cache buffer 50 .
- various manners can be performed in practice. For example, the replacement first stored in the cache buffer 50 is cleared first.
- the registered defect 11 and the corresponding replacement 21 thereof are similarly dealt with as above.
- the corresponding replacement 21 for the registered defect 11 has been read and stored in the cache buffer 50 as well as the neighboring replacements when the corresponding replacement 23 for the defect 13 is read. Accordingly, the replacement controller 30 can find the corresponding replacement 21 from the cache buffer 50 for the registered defect 11 .
- the PUH 5 does not need to jump to the spare area 20 to read the corresponding replacement 21 .
- the frequency that the pick-up head moves back and forth between the user data area and the spare area is significantly decreased.
- the reading apparatus searches the corresponding replacement thereof from the cache buffer 50 . If the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in the cache buffer 50 , the apparatus reads the corresponding replacement and the neighboring replacements from the spare area and stores these replacements in the cache buffer 50 .
- the steps such as searching, reading and storing of the replacements can be executed periodically or executed for a group of registered defects.
- the reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention does not immediately read a corresponding replacement from the spare area for a defect when the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in the cache buffer 50 . Instead, the apparatus stores the defect in the register 60 (Step S 25 in FIG. 9 ). Whenever the reading procedure has been performed for a predetermined period of time, the replacement controller 30 drives the PUH 5 to read the corresponding replacements and the neighboring replacements thereof from the spare area 20 for the defects stored in the register 60 . Alternatively, the replacement controller 30 executes these steps whenever the number of defects accumulated in the register 60 achieves a predetermined amount, for example, whenever the register 60 is full.
- the PUH 5 reads the data recorded in the user data area 10 and stored the same in the main buffer 40 , and picks up the replacements from the spare area 20 for the registered defects in the user data area 10 as well as the neighboring replacements thereof, and stores those replacements in the cache buffer 50 .
- the data recorded in portions of the user data area 10 between the defects, which are stored in the main buffer 40 , and the corresponding replacements for the defects of the user data area 10 , which are stored in the cache buffer 50 are alternately transmitted so as to form a complete data sequence.
- the corresponding replacements stored in the cache buffer 50 can be copied to the main buffer 40 to supplement the data for the register defects so that the replacements are combined with the data recorded in the user data area 10 to form a complete data sequence in the main buffer 40 , then the complete data sequence is transmitted from the main buffer 40 .
- the method related to utilization of the cache buffer 50 can be suspended as desired. For example, when a random reading mode (to read the information fragments distributed randomly on the disc) is executed, saving the replacements in the cache buffer 50 is of little or even no benefit, because the probability that the replacements stored in the cache buffer 50 are able to be used is very low. Accordingly, the reading apparatus can be switched to a normal reading mode, that is, the conventional reading manner. However, the reading apparatus can still store the read defects in the register 60 , and catch the corresponding replacements for those defects stored in the register 60 at a time either periodically or whenever the number of the defects stored in the register 60 reaches a predetermined value. It is noted that the main buffer 40 , cache buffer 50 and register 60 can be implemented by any proper types of storage devices.
- the method for allocating the corresponding replacements in the spare area for the registered defects of the user data area is preferably modified. The details will be further described as follows.
- the user data area 10 of the disc 1 suffers two sequential writing procedures, in each of which a section of the user data area is written. Verification is performed after each writing procedure. In verification for the first writing procedure, four defects (the first, second, third and fourth defects) are found. In verification for the second writing procedure, two defects (the fifth and sixth defects) are found. It is noted that two sections 12 , 14 written in these two writing procedures may be disposed sequentially or randomly. Also, these sections 12 , 14 may be disposed continuously or discretely. The sections 12 , 14 may even overlap with each other.
- each of spare areas is sequentially occupied and used from the outmost toward the inner side.
- the replacements corresponding to the first to sixth defects are disposed from the outermost location toward the inner side of the unused region of the spare area.
- the corresponding replacements for the defects of the first writing procedure are recorded in the unused region of the spare area in a manner that the four corresponding replacements are inwardly disposed at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area with a sequence from the last one (the replacement corresponding to the fourth defect) to the first one (the replacement corresponding to the first defect), as shown in FIG. 11 .
- the corresponding replacements for the defects of the second writing procedure that is, the fifth and sixth defects, are recorded at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area, of which the area has been reduced due to the occupation of the previous four replacements, in the similar manner as above.
- the disc suffering two sequential writing procedures (the user data area of the disc having two sections) is described above as an example, the case that the disc suffers more sequential writing procedures can be deduced similarly.
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A reading apparatus for reading an information recording medium is provided. The information recording medium has a user data area for recording data and a spare area for recording replacements corresponding to registered defects of the user data area. The reading apparatus comprising a first storage device for storing the data read from the user data area, a second storage device for storing replacements, and a replacement controller for searching a corresponding replacement in the second storage device when a registered defect is found in the user data area, while reading the corresponding replacement and neighboring replacements thereof from the spare area of the information recording medium and storing the read replacements into the second storage device when the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in the second storage device.
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- This application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/554,483 filed on Oct. 30, 2006, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/732,731 filed on Nov. 2, 2005, and the entirety of which are incorporated by reference herein.
- The present application relates to a reading method and apparatus for an information recording medium and spare area allocation thereof, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for reading replacements recorded in a spare area of the disc, as well as a method for allocating the replacements in the spare area.
- An information recording medium such as a video recording disc (e.g. DVDRAM) has spare areas. The spare areas are located at inner side and outer side of the innermost and outermost of a user data area of the disc, respectively.
- For recording information on the disc, verification is performed after each writing procedure to check if there are defects in the user data area that records user data. A defect usually indicates a defective ECC block, which contains 16 sectors. If there are defects, replacements corresponding to the defects are stored into the spare area to be used as back-up blocks. Each of the spare areas is sequentially occupied and used from the outermost toward the innermost. In a case that six defects are found in the user data area, as shown in
FIG. 1 , corresponding replacements for the six defects are recorded in the spare area in a manner that the replacement for the first defect is recorded at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area. The replacement for the second defect is inwardly recorded beside the first replacement, that is, the outermost location of the unused region, of which the area has been reduced due to the occupation by the first replacement. The rest can be deduced similarly. - The defect having the corresponding replacement thereof recorded is referred to a registered defect. The relationship information between the registered defects and the corresponding replacements, such as addresses, are recorded in a certain region of the disc, as commonly known in this field.
- In a sequential reading procedure, a pick-up head of a reading apparatus reads the
user data area 10 substantially from the innermost toward the outermost, as shown inFIG. 2 . InFIG. 2 and other drawings, only the outerside spare area 20 is shown as an example for the sake of simplicity. -
FIG. 3 illustrates theuser data area 10 havingdefects corresponding replacements spare area 20. In this example, thedefect 11 is found in a fore writing/verifying process, so thecorresponding replacement 21 thereof is recorded at the outermost among the three replacements. Thedefects corresponding replacements replacement 21. -
FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a conventional reading procedure. In this drawing, the bold arrows indicate reading operations of the pick-up head and the normal arrows indicate seeking operations of the pick-up head. The pick-up head sequentially reads data in theuser data area 10. When thedefect 13 is read, the pick-up head shifts to thespare area 20 to read thecorresponding replacement 23, and then returns to theuser data area 10 to read the data following thedefect 13 until thenext defect 15 is read. The pick-up head then jumps to thespare area 20 to read thecorresponding replacement 25 to supplement the data for thedefect 15. After reading thereplacement 25, the pick-up head again returns to theuser data area 10 to read the data following thedefect 15 until thenext defect 11 is read. The pick-up head once more jumps to thespare area 20 to read thereplacement 21 corresponding to thedefect 11 to supplement the data for thedefect 11. Then the pick-up head returns to theuser data area 10 to read the rest of the data. As described above, to obtain a complete data sequence in the sequential reading procedure, the pick-up head needs to shift back and forth between theuser data area 10 and thespare area 20 for many times, as shown inFIG. 4 . - Such frequent movements of the pick-up head for obtain corresponding replacements to replace the different defects of the
user data area 10 may increase the load of the reading apparatus and degrades the stability thereof. Thus, the present invention brings a solution to the foregoing problem. - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method for reading an information recording medium. The information recording medium has a user data area and at least one spare area. Corresponding replacements for defects of the user data area are recorded in the spare area to be used as backup sectors. Utilizing the reading method in accordance with the present invention, the frequency that a pick-up head of a reading apparatus moves back and forth between the user data area and the spare area in a sequential reading procedure can be reduced.
- Another objective of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for reading an information recording medium. The information recording medium has a user data area and at least one spare area. Corresponding replacements for defects of the user data area are recorded in the spare area to be used as backup. Compared to a conventional reading apparatus, the frequency of a pick-up head of the reading apparatus according to the present invention to go and return between the user data area and the spare area in a sequential reading procedure is reduced.
- A further objective of the present invention is to provide a modified allocation method for replacements in the spare area. The disposition of the replacements provided by this allocation method is more preferably accommodated with the reading method of the present invention.
- In accordance with still a further aspect of the present invention, the method for allocating replacements in an information recording medium, which has a user data area for recording data and a spare area for recording replacements corresponding to defects of the user data area, includes steps of: verifying a section of the user data area after writing said section to sequentially find defects in the section; recording corresponding replacements for the defects in the spare area, wherein the corresponding replacements for the last one to the first one of the defects are sequentially disposed inward from the outmost location of an unused portion of the spare area.
- The present invention will be further described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
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FIG. 1 schematically illustrates allocation of replacements in prior art; -
FIG. 2 schematically illustrates arrangement of a user data area and spare area of a disc; -
FIG. 3 schematically illustrates correspondence between registered defects in the user data area and corresponding replacements in the spare area of the disc ofFIG. 2 ; -
FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a conventional reading procedure; -
FIG. 5 schematically illustrates relevant components of a reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention. -
FIGS. 6 and 7 schematically illustrate a reading procedure in accordance with the present invention; -
FIG. 8 is a flow chart generally showing the reading method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 9 is a flow chart generally showing the reading method in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the same step numbers in this drawing indicate the same steps as inFIG. 8 ; -
FIG. 10 generally and schematically shows distribution of defects in a user data area of a disc; and -
FIG. 11 schematically illustrates allocation of replacements in accordance with the present invention. - The present invention will be described in detail as follows.
FIG. 5 roughly shows essential components of a reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention, andFIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate an information recording medium reading method in accordance with the present invention. As inFIG. 4 , the bold arrows indicate reading operations of the pick-up head and the normal arrows indicate the seeking operations of the pick-up head inFIG. 6 . - With reference to
FIG. 5 , the reading apparatus according to the present invention includes a pick-up head 5 to read an information recording medium, such as aDVDRAM disc 1, which is rotated by aspindle 3, a decoder 7 for decoding data read from thedisc 1, areplacement controller 30, amain buffer 40, acache buffer 50 and aregister 60. The details will be further described later. -
FIG. 8 simply shows a flow chart of a reading method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. With reference toFIGS. 5 , 6 and 7 as well asFIG. 8 , a sequential reading procedure in accordance with the present invention for thedisc 1 is performed. As mentioned above, thedisc 1 has theuser data area 10 and thespare area 20. As above, the outer spare area is described as an example for the sake of simplicity. The correspondingreplacements defects user data area 10 are recorded in thespare area 20 as previously described. The pick-up head (PUH) 5 of the reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention reads theuser data area 10 sequentially in a sequential reading procedure (Step S10 inFIG. 8 ). When thePUH 5 reads the first registereddefect 13, thereplacement controller 30 conducts a search in thecache buffer 50 to find thecorresponding replacement 23 thereof (Step S20 inFIG. 8 ). If the correspondingreplacement 23 is not found in thecache buffer 50, thePUH 5 moves to thespare area 20 to read the correspondingreplacement 23, and also read the neighboring replacements thereof (Step S30 inFIG. 8 ), ideally includingreplacements corresponding replacement 23, thereplacement 21 in this case, is read with thereplacement 23. - The range of the neighboring replacements being buffered in the
cache buffer 50 can be determined according to a predetermined algorithm built in the reading apparatus. Alternatively, the range can be dynamically determined according to at least one of the parameters such as location relationship between the registered defect and the corresponding replacement, performance of the reading apparatus, reading mode, and condition of thedisc 1. The range can also be determined by the built-in algorithm and dynamically adjusted according to the parameters mentioned above. - The achievability for reading the neighboring replacements can be less critical than that for reading the corresponding replacement. For example, it can be set that the reading apparatus attempts to read the corresponding replacement for six times at most, while the reading apparatus abandons to read the neighboring replacements thereof within a pre-defined range after three failed attempts. The respective times that the reading apparatus attempts to read the corresponding replacement and the neighboring replacements mentioned herein are only for explication. In practice, the number of times can be determined as desired.
- The read replacements are stored in the cache buffer 50 (Step S40 in
FIG. 8 ), and the data read from theuser data area 10 is stored in themain buffer 40. The correspondingreplacement 23 is used to supplement the data for the registereddefect 13. ThePUH 5 then subsequently reads the following data in theuser data area 10. When thePUH 5 meets thenext defect 15, thereplacement controller 30 conducts another search in thecache buffer 50 and picks up the correspondingreplacement 25 from thecache buffer 50. If it fails to pick up the correspondingreplacement 25 from thecache buffer 50, thereplacement controller 30 may permit of a predetermined times of attempts. If the correspondingreplacement 25 is still failed to be picked up from thecache buffer 50 after the predetermined times of attempts, thereplacement controller 30 determines to abandon this pick up operation. - Since the capacity of the
cache buffer 50 is limited, it is preferred that the replacements stored therein are all cleared if it is failed to find the corresponding replacement therefrom for a registered defect. However, if the capacity of thecache buffer 50 is large enough, it is also acceptable that only a portion of the replacements stored therein are cleared when the corresponding replacement for a registered defect is failed to be found in thecache buffer 50. To partially clear the replacements in thecache buffer 50, various manners can be performed in practice. For example, the replacement first stored in thecache buffer 50 is cleared first. - The registered
defect 11 and thecorresponding replacement 21 thereof are similarly dealt with as above. In the preferred embodiment, the correspondingreplacement 21 for the registereddefect 11 has been read and stored in thecache buffer 50 as well as the neighboring replacements when the correspondingreplacement 23 for thedefect 13 is read. Accordingly, thereplacement controller 30 can find thecorresponding replacement 21 from thecache buffer 50 for the registereddefect 11. Thus, thePUH 5 does not need to jump to thespare area 20 to read the correspondingreplacement 21. By the reading method in accordance with the present invention, the frequency that the pick-up head moves back and forth between the user data area and the spare area is significantly decreased. - In this embodiment, whenever a registered defect is found, the reading apparatus searches the corresponding replacement thereof from the
cache buffer 50. If the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in thecache buffer 50, the apparatus reads the corresponding replacement and the neighboring replacements from the spare area and stores these replacements in thecache buffer 50. However, the steps such as searching, reading and storing of the replacements can be executed periodically or executed for a group of registered defects. - In another embodiment, of which the flow chart is simply and generally shown in
FIG. 9 , the reading apparatus in accordance with the present invention does not immediately read a corresponding replacement from the spare area for a defect when the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in thecache buffer 50. Instead, the apparatus stores the defect in the register 60 (Step S25 inFIG. 9 ). Whenever the reading procedure has been performed for a predetermined period of time, thereplacement controller 30 drives thePUH 5 to read the corresponding replacements and the neighboring replacements thereof from thespare area 20 for the defects stored in theregister 60. Alternatively, thereplacement controller 30 executes these steps whenever the number of defects accumulated in theregister 60 achieves a predetermined amount, for example, whenever theregister 60 is full. - According to the present invention, the
PUH 5 reads the data recorded in theuser data area 10 and stored the same in themain buffer 40, and picks up the replacements from thespare area 20 for the registered defects in theuser data area 10 as well as the neighboring replacements thereof, and stores those replacements in thecache buffer 50. The data recorded in portions of theuser data area 10 between the defects, which are stored in themain buffer 40, and the corresponding replacements for the defects of theuser data area 10, which are stored in thecache buffer 50, are alternately transmitted so as to form a complete data sequence. Alternatively, the corresponding replacements stored in thecache buffer 50 can be copied to themain buffer 40 to supplement the data for the register defects so that the replacements are combined with the data recorded in theuser data area 10 to form a complete data sequence in themain buffer 40, then the complete data sequence is transmitted from themain buffer 40. - In accordance with the present invention, the method related to utilization of the
cache buffer 50 can be suspended as desired. For example, when a random reading mode (to read the information fragments distributed randomly on the disc) is executed, saving the replacements in thecache buffer 50 is of little or even no benefit, because the probability that the replacements stored in thecache buffer 50 are able to be used is very low. Accordingly, the reading apparatus can be switched to a normal reading mode, that is, the conventional reading manner. However, the reading apparatus can still store the read defects in theregister 60, and catch the corresponding replacements for those defects stored in theregister 60 at a time either periodically or whenever the number of the defects stored in theregister 60 reaches a predetermined value. It is noted that themain buffer 40,cache buffer 50 and register 60 can be implemented by any proper types of storage devices. - To be more ideally accommodated with the reading method in accordance with the present invention, the method for allocating the corresponding replacements in the spare area for the registered defects of the user data area is preferably modified. The details will be further described as follows.
- With reference to
FIG. 10 , in this example, theuser data area 10 of thedisc 1 suffers two sequential writing procedures, in each of which a section of the user data area is written. Verification is performed after each writing procedure. In verification for the first writing procedure, four defects (the first, second, third and fourth defects) are found. In verification for the second writing procedure, two defects (the fifth and sixth defects) are found. It is noted that twosections sections sections - As previously described, conventionally, each of spare areas is sequentially occupied and used from the outmost toward the inner side. As illustrated in
FIG. 1 , the replacements corresponding to the first to sixth defects are disposed from the outermost location toward the inner side of the unused region of the spare area. - According to the present invention, the corresponding replacements for the defects of the first writing procedure, that is, the first to fourth defects, are recorded in the unused region of the spare area in a manner that the four corresponding replacements are inwardly disposed at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area with a sequence from the last one (the replacement corresponding to the fourth defect) to the first one (the replacement corresponding to the first defect), as shown in
FIG. 11 . - The corresponding replacements for the defects of the second writing procedure, that is, the fifth and sixth defects, are recorded at the outermost location of the unused region of the spare area, of which the area has been reduced due to the occupation of the previous four replacements, in the similar manner as above.
- Although the disc suffering two sequential writing procedures (the user data area of the disc having two sections) is described above as an example, the case that the disc suffers more sequential writing procedures can be deduced similarly.
- While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described in detail, various modifications and alterations can be made by persons skilled in this art. The embodiment of the present invention is therefore described in an illustrative but not restrictive sense. It is intended that the present invention should not be limited to the particular forms as illustrated, and that all modifications and alterations which maintain the spirit and realm of the present invention are within the scope as defined in the appended claims.
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1. A reading apparatus for reading an information recording medium having a user data area for recording data and a spare area for recording replacements corresponding to registered defects of the user data area, said apparatus comprising:
a first storage device for storing the data read from the user data area;
a second storage device for storing replacements; and
a replacement controller for searching a corresponding replacement in the second storage device when a registered defect is found in the user data area, while reading the corresponding replacement and neighboring replacements thereof from the spare area of the information recording medium and storing the read replacements into the second storage device when the corresponding replacement is failed to be found in the second storage device.
2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the replacements stored in the second storage device are cleared if the corresponding replacement for the defect is failed to be found in the second storage device.
3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the replacement controller determines a range of the neighboring replacements based on a built-in predetermined algorithm.
4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the replacement controller determines a range of the neighboring replacements according to at least one of the parameters selected from a group consisting essentially of location relationship between the defect and the corresponding replacement, performance of the reading apparatus, reading mode, and condition of the information recording medium.
5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the replacement controller accumulates registered defects found in the user data area; and searches the corresponding replacements recorded in the spare area for the accumulated registered defects.
6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the replacement controller searches the replacements whenever the number of the accumulated registered defects reaches a predetermined value.
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