A DRIVE INDICATING MECHANISM FOR REMOVABLE MEDIA

摘要

An optical disk system comprises a computer-readable medium containing code for controlling writing by the disk system to a removable optical disk. The optical disk system further comprises an optical pickup unit for reading data from the optical disk and writing data to the optical disk, a spindle motor for rotating the optical disk during the reading and writing, an optical disk controller that processes the data read from and written to the disk; and a processor that executes the code, thereby causing the optical disk system to write user data to the removable optical disk and to write an identifying value indicative of the optical disk system to at least one predetermined area of the removable optical disk.