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AssigneeMediatek Inc.
InventorsJyh-Shin Pan, Chao-Long Tsai
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A link writing method for a recordable or rewritable compact disk includes recording a writing interruption address and enabling a succeeding writing process after the writing interruption. Enabling a succeeding writing process includes searching the linking area and enabling a start writing signal and activating a laser power. The method can link a succeeding writing area with a previously written interrupted area with sufficient accuracy to allow the data frame to be successfully processed by error correction within the host drive. The linking area may be positioned by counting the values of the interrupted block, the interrupted data frame, and the interrupted bit count or by detecting a blank area. Other techniques for positioning the linking area include detecting an unwritten area having a length greater than a maximum or writing a characteristic pattern after an interruption.
A link writing method for a recordable or rewritable optical disk comprising:
An optical disk drive having a link writing function, comprising:
A link writing method for a recordable or rewritable optical disk comprising:
An optical disk drive device having a link writing function, comprising an encoding link controller, responsive to a data writing interruption and a successive determination that data writing can resume, the encoding link controller detecting a pattern from signals read from a disk indicative of the end of a previous interrupted data writing, the pattern having a run length greater than a maximum run length value of normally written data, the encoding link controller generating a start writing signal in response to detecting the pattern so that the device subsequently initiates a succeeding writing process in response to the start writing signal.
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