PURPOSE: To remarkably shorten the recording time in faulty tracks and sectors and to prevent data destruction of the adjacent tracks due to track jump.

CONSTITUTION: If a fault is found in the specification track and sector checking blanks when the recording is not performed on the specification track and sector in the main recording area at the stage of checking blanks at the recording to the optical card, a comparator 110 or 120 sends a mission or extra signal. A first fault detection part 134 sends a fault signal to a first control part. The first control part stops the recording in the specification track and sector.