A dubbing apparatus to dub data managed per program like audio data such
as a piece of music is provided. In the dubbing apparatus, for passing
output data read from a CD through a CD drive for compression of the data
and transferring the compressed data for recording to an HD drive, an HD
TOC being breakpoint information is generated based on specified
information indicative of a track break of output data read from the HD
drive. The HD drive generates a FAT based on the HD TOC. In the HD drive,
the dubbed data can be managed per track accurately and properly without
having to monitor any information indicative of each track break such as
sub Q data synchronously with a stream of dubbing data.