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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1998
Koki Tanoue, Yokohama, JP;
Hideaki Osawa, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
Information is recorded/reproduced on/from an information recording medium in units of sectors each having a preformatted header field and a recording field using a change in optical characteristics due to a phase change. The recording field includes an actual recording field rewritably records information, and a gap field arranged before the actual recording field, having a length set on the basis of a random number, and having no information. The recording start position of the actual recording field is set at random. A guard field recording dummy data and having a length set on the basis of a random number is formed next to the gap field. Start portion degradation in the recording layer due to overwrite is generated only in the guard field.