Method for duplicating data
A method of the present invention duplicates data of a source medium to target media. The source medium is stored ground data and effective data, wherein the ground data are repeated to fill up the source medium and the effective data overwrite some of the ground data. Next, reading data of the source medium and comparing the data to the ground data. If the data are not as same as the ground data, then copy the data to the at least one target medium. If the data are as same as the ground data, then read the next t data of the source medium and repeating the comparing step.
1. A method for duplicating data of a source medium to at least one target medium, comprising the steps of:
a) making the source medium, in which ground data and effective data are stored, wherein a ground datum is repeatedly stored in the source medium, and the effective data, which are data for duplication, overwrite some of the ground data, wherein each of the overwritten ground data is partially or entirely overwritten;
b) reading data of the source medium, wherein a size of the data is as same as that of the ground data;
c) comparing the data to the ground data, wherein if the data are not as same as the ground data, then copy the data to the at least one target medium; and if the data are as same as the ground data, then take no duplication; and
d) reading next data of the source medium and repeating the step c.
2. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the step of making the source medium includes the steps of:
1) preparing an empty medium;
2) writing the ground datum to the medium repeatedly to fill up the medium; and
3) writing the effective data to the medium to overwrite said some of the ground data.
3. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the size of the ground datum is in a range of a sector and a plurality of sectors.
4. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the size of the ground datum is in a range of 512 bytes and 2048 bytes.
5. The method as defined in claim 1 , further comprising the step of comparing the target medium to the source medium after duplication to check whether the data of the target medium is as same as that of the source medium or not.
6. The method as defined in claim 5 , wherein if the target medium is different to the source medium, then makes a new source medium by creating another ground datum and performs the steps b to d.
7. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein if the data are not as same as the ground data in the step c, the method further comprises the step of recording an address of the data of the source medium in a table.
8. The method as defined in claim 7 , further comprising the steps of reading the data of the source medium according to the addresses of the data in the table, and copying the data to the at least one target medium.