Claims
- 1. A method of formatting a rewritable optical disk, the method comprising the following steps:
- (a) writing, over less than the entire disk, a lead-in area, a program area, and a first lead-out area;
- (b) writing, as an off-line process, new frames beyond the first lead-out area such that these frames are packet aligned with the program area written in step (a);
- (c) writing, as an off-line process, a new lead-out area;
- (d) writing, as an off-line process, from the program area, over the first lead-out area, to the new frames such that the program area in step (a) and the new frames in step (b) form one new contiguous program area; and
- (e) writing, as an off-line process, a new lead-in area.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of writing a new lead-out area, step (c), occurs after the step of writing a new lead-in area, step (e).
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/855,501 filed on May 13, 1997, which is hereby incorporated by reference, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,009,058.
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