Recording and reproducing method of optical information recording medium

摘要

The present invention relates to a recording and reproducing method and apparatus for an optical disk (1) of the phase transition type that can be overwritten. According to this invention, the capacity of repeated rewriting of the optical disk (1) is expanded by recording either non-inverted write data (11a) or inverted write data (11b) at random. The deterioration due to the repeated rewriting at a start point and an end point of the recording is suppressed by recording a synchronizing signal before the write data and/or dummy data after the write data in the way such that thermal stress is less likely to occur. A record end position can be determined precisely by detecting a stop pulse to stop recording. <IMAGE>