INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, RECORD REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND RECORD REPRODUCTION METHOD

摘要

Provided is an information storage medium that has a plurality of recording layers, a recording/reproducing method, and a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the information storage medium, each of the plurality of recording layers includes an inner circumference zone and a data zone, and at least one of the recording layers includes, in the inner circumference zone, a temporary disc management area (TDMA) for recording information about a defect detected in the data zone, wherein a size of the temporary disc management area allocated on an upper layer is greater than the size of the temporary disc management area allocated on a lower layer.