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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk to which sectors and clusters of data can be written, wherein each of the sectors includes an arbitrary first number of data frames and each of the clusters includes an arbitrary number of sectors, wherein the disk includes a region for recording the data, wherein the region is segmented into zones, a first set of at least one of the zones is located adjacent to a second set of at least one of the zones, the second set is located closer to an outer circumferential side of the disk than is the first set, each track of the first set is segmented into a second number of data frames, and each track of the second set is segmented into a third number of data frames, where the third number is the sum of the second number and a fourth number smaller than the first number. Other aspects of the invention are a method and apparatus for recording data to or reproducing data from such a disk.