SPEED-DOWN DURING LINKING

摘要

In the invention herein a recordable optical disc is provided with embossed windings of a spiral track or circular tracks in a recording layer of phase change material and with embossed address/timing information located between adjacent windings. User data is received for recording on the disc. The data is written by controlling a laser beam scanning the winding to form marks of different phases of the phase change material at a higher disc speed while reading an address from the disc. The writing is occasionally interrupted in order to calibrate write parameters in order to improve the write quality. After the calibration linking is performed by jumping to a position just before the writing was interrupted, and determining the current position depending on an address read from the disc, and tracking to the position that the writing was interrupted. When an error occurs in reading the address information from the disc during linking at a higher disc speed, then the disc speed is reduced to a lower disc speed and linking is performed at the slower disc speed. After successful linking, writing of the user data continues at the lower disc speed or the disc speed is increased and writing continues at the higher disc speed.