Storage medium with area for specifying a physical format, and corresponding recording and reproducing methods

摘要

The present invention relates to a storage medium having a first area (202) and a second area (204). According to the invention, the first area (202) is recorded in a predefined first data format and contains information about a second data format. The second area (204) is recorded in the second data format. Methods according to the invention relate to reading data and recording data.