Information recording apparatus and control method thereof

An information recording apparatus configured in such a way as to comprise a plurality of controlling means for recording data received from a host device on an information recording medium with each controlling means having memory, temporarily store said data in memory of one controlling means and at the same time store said data in duplicate in memory of the other controlling means and, when data recording processing carried out by said one controlling means is stopped, allow said other controlling means to continue the recording processing by using said duplicated data and allow said other controlling means to continue processing of updating said data by using said duplicated data, wherein a point at which the data updating processing in said one control apparatus becomes irreversible is notified from the control apparatus to the control apparatus having said duplicated data, said each controlling means comprising:

• interface means for communicating with said recording medium;
• parity generating means for generating parity data on said data;
• inter-controlling-means information communicating means for communicating information between control means,
• wherein when said one recording means stops data recording processing, notification that the data recording processing becomes irreversible is made by storing parity data on the data to be subjected to said recording processing created by said one controlling means in the memory of the other recording means that stores said duplicated data.

An information recording method using an information recording apparatus configured in such a way as to comprise a plurality of controlling means for recording data received from a host device on an information recording medium with each controlling means having memory, temporarily store said data in memory of one controlling means and at the same time store said data in duplicate in memory of the other controlling means and, when data recording processing carried out by said one controlling means is stopped, allow said other controlling means to continue the recording processing by using said duplicated data and allow said other controlling means to continue processing of updating said data by using said duplicated data, wherein a point at which the data updating processing in said one control apparatus becomes irreversible is notified from the control apparatus to the control apparatus having said duplicated data, wherein the method

• records the data received from the host device on a recording medium, creates parity data on this data and records the parity data on a predetermined recording medium, configured in such as way as to temporarily store un-updated data sent from said host device in memory of one of a plurality of recording medium controlling means each having memory, store said un-updated data in duplicate in the other controlling means, allow said one controlling means to create new parity data on said un-updated data from un-updated data sent from the host device, old data recorded in an area of said recording medium in which said un-updated data is to be recorded and parity data of said old data, write said un-updated data and said new parity data in a predetermined area of said recording medium,
• wherein when said one controlling means writes said un-updated data or said new parity data in said disk, the other controlling means that stores said duplicated data is notified of the point at which processing of recording said un-updated data becomes irreversible.