INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING FOR THE SAME, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING FOR THE SAME, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECORDING OR REPRODUCING CONTROL, AND DATA STRUCTURE INCLUDING CONTROL SIGNAL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reuse data recorded in an information recording medium by defect management. SOLUTION: This information recording medium is provided with a user data area for recording recording data, a spare area for substituting for a part of the user data area due to defect management in the user data area, and a defect management area including first information DLE 4 indicating a correlation between a retreating source address in the user data area and a retreating destination address in the spare area, and second information DLE1 to 3 indicating a correlation between an alternative source address in the spare area and an alternative destination address in the spare area, and designed to record defect management information 122. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI