Optical recording medium having the physical address of sectors monotonically change along spiral tracks

摘要

An optical disk according to the present invention has data recording tracks of lands and grooves. Each of the data recording tracks has a length corresponding to a revolution of the disk and includes a plurality of track sectors. The data recording tracks of lands and grooves are connected alternately to form a continuous data recording spiral. Each of the track sectors has a preformatted identification signal part for representing sector address data and has a data recording part for recording data. The identification signal part has a first address data region and a second address region. The first address data region and the second address data region are shifted by the same predetermined distance in opposite directions from the center of a groove track in the radial direction of the disk. The first address data region is set to represent the address of a groove track sector, and the second address data region is set to represent the address of a land track sector adjacent to the groove track sector.