METHOD OF RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING TEMPORARY DEFECT LIST, RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND WRITE-ONCE RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data with respect to a write-once recording medium, the apparatus comprises a recording/reading unit which records data on or reads data from the write-once recording medium; and a control unit which controls the recording/reading unit to record a temporary defect list for defect management, which is created while the data is recorded on the write-once recording medium, in at least one cluster of the write-once recording medium, verifies whether a defect is generated in the at least one cluster, controls the recording/reading unit to record data recorded in a defective cluster in another cluster, and controls the recording/reading unit to record pointer information indicating a location of the at least one cluster in which the temporary defect list is recorded on the write-once recording medium; wherein the pointer information includes location information of the other cluster instead of the defective cluster.