JP2002203379A - Information recording device for optical disk - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the lowering of reading speed for the data in which the lowering causes a problem by a linear alternate processing of an alternate sector processing for the secondary defect sector of an optical disk. SOLUTION: In the case of recording a file 13 inside a storage device 6 on an optical disk 3, if the data to be recorded is such data that the lowering of reading speed causes a problem during reproduction from the optical disk, the recording of the file 13 onto the optical disk 3 is done by avoiding recording on the linear alternate sector.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a rewritable optical disk information recording apparatus. In particular, this invention
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information recording apparatus for an optical disk which controls a process of writing information to a replacement sector of a secondary defective sector and improves a data reading speed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a rewritable optical disk is composed of a lead-in area, a data area and a lead-out area as shown in FIG. The data area is divided into a plurality of zones, and the data area of each zone includes a user area and a spare area. When a defective sector exists in the user area or the spare area, the optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus assigns a logical sector number to a sector in the spare area. Since the host computer accesses the optical disk based on the logical sector number, there is no need to be aware of a defective sector.

[0003] Rewritable optical disks, for example, DV
In a recording / reproducing system for a D-RAM disk, defective sectors include four defect management areas DMA (Defect Management Area) in a lead-in area or a lead-out area.
It is registered in 1-4. The optical disk recording / reproducing device determines the logical sector number by referring to these DMAs.

Each DMA has a DDS (Disc Definition Std).
ructure), PDL (Primary Defect List), SDL
(Secondary Defect List) and 4 DMAs
Record the same defective sector information. As shown in FIG. 7, the PDL records PDL identification data and a list of numbers of defective sectors (primary defective sectors) found during certification of the data area before use of the optical disk. As shown in FIG. 8, the SDL records a list of SDL identification data, the number of the first sector (secondary defective sector) of the defective block found when the disk is used, and the number of the first sector of the spare block. Also, DDS
Although not shown, DDS identification data and certification information are recorded therein.

A logical sector number is assigned to a sector in the spare area by slip replacement for a defective sector (primary defective sector) registered in the PDL, a sector (secondary defective sector) in a defective block registered in the SDL. (Defective sector) is performed by a method called linear replacement.

FIG. 9 shows a state of slip change. First,
FIG. 9A shows a case where there is no defective sector. At this time,
The physical sector numbers correspond from the inner circumference to the outer circumference and correspond one-to-one with each sector of the user area and the spare area, and the logical sector numbers are continuously assigned to the sectors in the user area.

However, as shown in FIG. 9 (2), when a defective sector exists, in the slip replacement, the logical sector number originally assigned to the defective sector is the first normal sector of the continuous sector following the defective sector. Are assigned to different sectors. Accordingly, if there are m0 defective sectors and m1 defective sectors, the logical sector numbers are shifted to the total (m0 + m1) spare sectors and assigned.
At this time, the logical sector numbers are assigned in the order of physical sector numbers of available sectors.

[0008] On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
It is performed in units of a block composed of 16 sectors to which data for error correction is added, which is the minimum unit for reading from and writing to the disk. As in FIG. 9, the physical sector numbers correspond one-to-one with each sector from the inner circumference to the outer circumference. As shown in FIG. 10, when n0 defective blocks and n1 defective blocks exist in the user area, a total of (n0 + n1) blocks are allocated in the spare area. In the linear replacement, the logical sector number originally assigned to the sector in the defective block is assigned to the sector in the block secured in the spare area. Therefore, if the sectors are successively arranged in the order of the logical sector number, the sectors in the user area and the sectors in the spare area are alternately arranged. Although the defective block is set in the user area in FIG. 10, the same linear replacement is performed on the sector of the defective block generated in the spare area.

[0009]

In the method based on the linear replacement, each time a read / write to a sector (a replacement sector of a secondary defective sector) of a linearly replaced block (block secured in a spare area) occurs, There is a problem that the reciprocal movement of the optical head from the user area to the spare area occurs, which lowers the average transfer speed. Therefore, for example, in the case where a digital video file for which continuous playback is desired is frequently written and subjected to linear replacement processing,
There is a possibility that the digital video reproduction as the reading operation is intermittent.

According to the present invention, the recording of an optical disk for avoiding a decrease in the reading speed is performed for data for which a reduction in the reading speed is a problem by a linear alternation process which is an alternation sector process of a secondary defective sector of the optical disk. It is intended to provide a device.

[0011]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides: (1) a rewritable optical disk having at least a lead-in area and a rewritable data area;
In an information recording apparatus for an optical disc that performs a linear replacement process as a replacement sector process of a secondary defective sector in the data area, whether or not to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector when writing information to the data area Selecting means for selecting writing of the secondary defective sector to the replacement sector based on the identification information indicating the following, and recording means for writing management information of the information including the identification information to the data area. An information recording device for an optical disk, characterized by comprising: (2) For a rewritable optical disk having at least a lead-in area and a rewritable data area,
In the information recording apparatus for an optical disc, which performs linear replacement processing as replacement sector processing of secondary defective sectors in the data area and writes file data to the data area, and writes management information of the file data to the data area. Means for selecting whether to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector based on identification information indicating whether or not to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector when writing file data to the secondary sector; An information recording apparatus for an optical disc, comprising: recording means for writing at least two pieces of information of identification information and information indicating the size of the file data as management information of the file data. Is provided.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The optical disk recording apparatus of the present invention records file data for which a reduction in reading speed during reproduction is a problem, while avoiding recording in linear alternate sectors when writing data.

An embodiment of the recording apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an optical disc recording / reproducing system 1 that employs a recording device according to an embodiment. The host computer 2 controls the entire optical disc recording / reproducing system. An optical disk recording / reproducing device 4 for recording / reproducing the optical disk 3 is connected to the host computer 2. In addition, the host computer 2 includes an optical disc recording / reproducing system 1
Input / output devices 5 such as a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse necessary for operating the
A storage device 6 such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk drive or a hard disk drive for storing S (operating system), application software, or data files is connected.

The host computer 2 includes a CPU 7 for controlling the entire operation of the host computer 2, RAMs 8 and 9 serving as storage devices, and an input / output circuit (I / O) for the input / output device 5.
/ O) 10, an interface circuit (I
/ F) 11 and an interface circuit (I / F) 12 with the optical disc recording / reproducing device 4.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the computer file 13 provided with an identification signal indicating whether or not the data is not written to the linear replacement sector and the corresponding logical sector number is left unused. . The computer file 13 is stored in the storage device 6. File 13
Is composed of file management information 14 and file data 15. The file management information 14 has a file name 16,
File size 17, creation date, time 18, file attribute 19 indicating an invisible file, etc., position information 20 on the recorded medium, no write to the linear replacement sector, and the corresponding logical sector number is not used An identification signal 21 indicating whether or not to keep it is included.

The method of recording data on the optical disk 3 by the above-described optical disk recording / reproducing system 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.
Will be described with reference to a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the host computer 2 shown in FIG. Note that the program for executing this processing and the computer file 13 recorded on the optical disk 3 are stored in the storage device 6.

The recording mode shown in FIG. 3 is started (step S1).
00), the host computer 2 reads the file management information 14 of the computer file 13 to be written on the optical disc (step S101), does not write the linear replacement sector, and leaves the corresponding logical sector number unused. An identification signal 21 indicating whether the write operation is to be performed is determined, and writing to the linear replacement sector is determined (step S102). If the writing to the linear replacement sector is prohibited, the control is transferred to the process 200; if not, the control is transferred to the process 300.

In a process 200 shown in FIG.
The SDL data contained in the upper DMA area is read (step S201), and the logical block performing the linear replacement sector is known. Further, an area indicating the use status of the logical block on the optical disk 3 is read (step S2).
02), know the logical sector number of the recordable sector. Next, in the logical sector numbers of the recordable sectors, except the sectors using the linear replacement sector (step S20).
3), a sector to be recorded is determined (step S20)
4). After the sector to be recorded is determined, file data is read from the storage device 6 into the RAM 8 by a certain number of bytes (step S205), and data is recorded in the sector on the optical disk 3 (step S206).

After writing, verify is performed (step S207). As a result of the verification, if the block contains an error equal to or greater than the specified value, it is determined that a block error has occurred (step S208), and a linear replacement sector is assigned (step S209). Next, data from a block in which a block error has occurred is recorded again from a normal logical block. At this time, except for the sector using the linear replacement sector set in step S209 (step S210), the sector to be recorded is determined again (step S211), and recording is performed (step S212). Step S207 to step S212
Is repeated until no block error occurs.

If no block error occurs, it is determined whether or not the recording has been completed to the end of the file (step S213). If the recording has not been completed to the end, steps S205 to S213 are repeated. After recording to the end of the file, the process returns to the main program (step S214).

In the process 300 shown in FIG. 5, first, an area indicating the use status of a logical block on the optical disk 3 is read (step S301), and an area to be recorded is determined (step S302). After the sector to be recorded is determined, the file data is transferred from the storage device 6 to the RAM by a certain number of bytes.
8 (step S303), and data is recorded in a sector on the optical disk 3 (step S304).

After writing, verify is performed (step S305). As a result of the verification, if the block contains an error equal to or greater than the specified value, it is determined that a block error has occurred (step S306), and a linear replacement sector is allocated (step S307). Is written to the linear replacement sector (step S308). Steps S305 to S308 are repeated until no block error occurs.

If no block error occurs, it is determined whether or not the recording has been completed to the end of the file (step S309). If the recording has not been completed to the end, steps S305 to S309 are repeated. After recording to the end of the file, the process returns to the main program (step S310).

In the main program of FIG.
Alternatively, when the control is returned from the process 300, the updated file management information 14 is written to a predetermined area on the optical disc 3 (step S103). Additionally, the updated DMA
Is written in a predetermined area on the optical disk 3 (step S104), and the recording mode is ended (step S104).
105).

As described above, in the optical disk recording apparatus of this embodiment, at the time of data writing, data is not written to the linear replacement sector, and the identification indicating whether or not the corresponding logical sector number remains unused. Depending on the signal,
It does not use linear alternate sectors. Therefore, when reproducing the data recorded in this way, it is possible to avoid a decrease in the reading speed due to the reciprocating movement of the optical head from the user area to the spare area. Therefore, with the use of the optical disk recording apparatus of the present embodiment, it is possible to perform good recording and reproduction on a file that is desired to be continuously reproduced, such as a digital video file.

When recording data on an optical disk,
The allocation of the linear replacement sector to the sector in the defective block detected during the verification is registered in the SDL of the DMA area on the optical disk as usual, and the registered logical block remains unused and can be used. . Before recording, it is more effective to rearrange the files so as to secure a continuous area.

[0027]

As described above, according to the recording apparatus of the optical disk of the present invention, the linear replacement processing, which is the replacement sector processing of the secondary defective sector of the optical disk, can be applied to data for which the reading speed is problematic. Thus, it is possible to selectively avoid a decrease in the reading speed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an optical disc recording / reproducing system employing one embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a computer file used in the optical disc recording / playback system shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a recording procedure adopted in the optical disc recording / reproducing system shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a procedure for performing recording adopted in the optical disc recording / reproducing system shown in FIG. 1;

5 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a procedure for performing recording adopted in the optical disc recording / reproducing system shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of an optical disc.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of a PDL.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of an SDL.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a state of a zone where a slip change has been performed.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a state of a zone where a linear replacement is performed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 optical disk recording / reproducing system 2 host computer 3 optical disk 4 optical disk recording / reproducing device 5 input / output device 6 storage device 7 CPU 8 RAM 9 ROM 10 input / output circuit (I / O) 11 interface circuit (I / F) 12 interface circuit (I / F) 13 Computer file 14 File management information 21 Identification signal

Claims (2)

[Claims] An information recording apparatus for an optical disc which performs a linear replacement process as a replacement sector process for a secondary defective sector in a rewritable optical disk having at least a lead-in area and a rewritable data area. Selecting means for selecting whether to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector based on identification information indicating whether or not to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector when writing information to the data area; An information recording apparatus for an optical disk, comprising: recording means for writing management information of the information including the identification information into the data area. 2. A rewritable optical disk having at least a lead-in area and a rewritable data area is subjected to linear replacement processing as replacement sector processing for secondary defective sectors in the data area, and file data is stored in the data area. In the information recording apparatus for an optical disk for writing the file data management information to the data area while writing the file data to the data area, it is determined whether or not to write the secondary defective sector to a replacement sector when writing the file data to the data area. Selecting means for selecting the writing of the secondary defective sector into the replacement sector based on the identification information indicated by the identification information, and at least two pieces of information including the identification information and the information indicating the size of the file data. Recording means for writing as management information of the Optical disk of the information recording apparatus.