METHOD FOR EXTENDING A FUNCTION OF DISK DRIVE AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE USING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to a disk drive, the drive control method and apparatus, the firmware by using a particular device driver relates to a method and apparatus for expanding standing without changing the functionality of the disc drive. ; function expansion method of the disk drive according to the present invention is a predetermined function which is not supported by the firmware of the data processing device the step of generating a status information associated, comprising: monitoring occurrence from the host device of the state information, by executing the program corresponding to the status information from the host device, the data to retrieve the requested content in response to the status information, and in step, and the data processing apparatus to transmit to the processing device characterized in that it comprises the step of executing a predetermined function which is not supported by the built-in firmware using the content.