摘要 |
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a member for determining whether a cassette loaded is a first tape cassette having a tape-like recording medium stored in a cartridge and a nonvolatile memory or a second tape cassette having a tape-like recording medium stored in a cartridge without nonvolatile memory. In the case of the first tape cassette, at least the nonvolatile memory is initialized, while in the case of the second tape cassette, the tape-like recording medium is initialized. The tape in the cartridge includes a plurality of partitions, and their individual history lists are stored in the nonvolatile memory.
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