Writable optical disc having a plurality of chapters each having recording area, management area and partition area provided therein

摘要

A writable optical disc has at least two chapters comprising a first chapter and a second chapter. Management data including a partition address is written in a management area in each chapter, and information is written in an information recording area after management area in the first chapter. A partition data is written in a partition area after the information recording area of the first chapter. The partition data is erased when writing the second chapter, so that the first chapter is discriminated from the second chapter, and a partition data is written in a partition area of the second chapter after writing of information in an information recording area thereof.