MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE

PURPOSE:To prevent an unrecorded part from being mistaken for the fault of an equipment, etc., by a user by displaying that it is the unrecorded part on a display means when a magnetic tape travels on the unrecorded part. CONSTITUTION:A CTL signal is not counted by a CTL counter part 13 in the unrecorded part, so that a display control part 14 interrupts the control of counting-up in the display of hour, minute and second. Then, the display of hour, minute and second is stopped at that time and kept in such a state in the display part 15. When the CTL signal is not detected, an H signal is outputted from an unrecording detection part 16. Since the H signal is also supplied to another input terminal of an AND gate 17 from a control part at such a time, the H signal is supplied to the control part 14 from the gate 17. Based on the H signal, the control part 14 controls the display part 15 to display that it is the unrecorded part. Then, the user does not mistake the unrecorded part as the fault of the equipment and the tape.