FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: method for accessing a recording medium involves receiving a recording medium, establishing the type of the recording medium and controlling access to the recording medium depending on the type thereof. If the recording medium is of a rewritable type, the type of the recording medium is redefined, and access to the recording medium is controlled as if it were of a writable type, including formatting of the rewritable recording medium as if it were of the writable type.
EFFECT: possibility of logically formatting a rewritable disc as a write-once disc.
12 cl, 5 dwg
