Information recording medium, method of recording information thereto, and information recording/reproducing apparatus

摘要

The present invention provides an information recording medium and an information recording method that can stably record and reproduce information to or from an information recording medium capable of recording and reproducing information to and from two recording layers from one side thereof and can eliminate an effect of a crosstalk. In the invention, premarks (different from initialization) are formed to each of first and second recording layers of an information recording medium simultaneously with the initialization of the respective recording layers using an elliptical laser spot. With this operation, information can be stably reproduced from an information recording medium having at least two recording layers.