Claims
- 1. A method of formatting a rewritable optical disk, the method comprising the following steps:
- (a) writing a program area without a lead-in area and without a lead-out area;
- (b) writing new frames beyond the program area of step (a) using data from a host computer for data in the new frames;
- (c) writing, as an off-line process, additional new frames beyond the new frames of step (b), using arbitrary data for data in the additional new frames; and
- (d) writing, the lead-in and lead-out areas.
- 2. The method of claim 1, step (d) occurring as an off-line process when the disk is completely formatted.
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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