Patent attributes
An optical disc recording system includes a host apparatus configured to issue commands; and an optical disc recording apparatus configured to carry out a process corresponding to each of the commands, and to reply a response data to the command to the host apparatus. The host apparatus issues a record command as one of the commands to record a record data in an optical disc medium, and an optical disc recording apparatus records the record data in a data area in a predetermined format in response to the record command, wherein the optical disc comprises the data area and a first control data recording area. The optical disc recording apparatus additionally sets each of second control data recording areas in the data area in association with a command from the host apparatus as one of the commands, and a record status control data is recorded in the first or second control data recording area to indicate record status of the record data. At least a part of a second control data recording area associated data with at least one of the second control data recording areas is shared by the host apparatus and the optical disc recording apparatus.
