A method is designed to logically erase contents of a CD-RW disc in response
to
an erase command. The CD-RW disc is optically rewriteable, and has a program area
and a PMA area. The program area is recorded with the contents in the form of tracks.
The PMA area is recorded with at least two kinds of frames, one kind of frames
containing identification information for identifying the CD-RW disc and the other
kind of frames containing track information for indicating the tracks of the contents
recorded in the program area. The method is carried out by the steps of accessing
to the PMA area in response to the erase command, deleting all of frames which
contain the track information from the PMA area, thereby logically erasing all
of the contents from the program area, and reserving frames which contain the identification
information in the PMA area, so that the CD-RW disc can be identified at rewriting
thereof even after all of the contents are logically erased from the program area
of the CD-RW disc. Specifically, the step of reserving reserves frames containing
the identification information at a leading section of the PMA area. Practically,
the PMA area is divided into sections by every ten number of frames, and the step
of reserving reserves a ten number of frames containing the identification information
into a predetermined section of the PMA area so as to fill the predetermined section.