RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable grasping quickly a format situation of a whole disk in an optical disk recording medium in which data can be rewritten and which has a recording layer being multi-layers.

SOLUTION: A formatting bit map managing parts of format/unformatted in a whole recording layer is recorded for one recording layer. Movement between layers can be made unnecessary when a format situation of the whole disk is grasped, thereby, grasping the format situation of the whole disk can be performed quickly.

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