Recording control and space area management apparatus and method for recording additional data on a rewritable optical medium

摘要

A recording apparatus and control method for recording additional data in a space block are provided. The recording operation is terminated (S600,S610) if a corresponding space block is full (S550) when the additional recording is performed. A space area management method according to another embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of generating space area information (S700), updating the generated space area information (S730) for every recording/erasing, and storing the updated space area information (S750) in a disc (10) according to a prescribed command.