A data recording device of the present invention acquires passwords of
individual recording media attached to a plurality of medium attaching
units from a password storage unit which stores the passwords set to the
recording media having a password locking function, the device judges
whether or not the individual recording media are accessible by a RAID
recording system by use of the acquired passwords, and the device
accesses data of each recording medium by the RAID recording system in a
case where the medium is accessible by the RAID recording system.